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Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Hybris Artistica Tellurium Clock

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Since the 1930s, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos has graced the desks of JFK, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Queen Elizabeth. It requires no winding, no batteries, and no human intervention, a clock powered entirely by subtle shifts in room temperature. The new Atmos Hybris Artistica Tellurium by Marc Newson is the product of an 18-year collaboration between JLC and the Australian industrial designer and houses Calibre 590, the most complex movement in Atmos history. It sits inside a glass globe hand-engraved with a map of 64 constellations of the Northern Hemisphere, each principal star marked by one of 539 cabochon-cut sapphires. A three-dimensional tellurium tracks the orbits of Earth and Moon in real time: the Earth miniature-painted by JLC's Métiers Rares atelier, the Moon surface laser-engraved, and the Earth-Moon ring inlaid with meteorite. The moon phase deviates by one day every 5,770 years.…

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