This $28,000 Clock Charges Itself on Air
Meet the moonphase clock from Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre.
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Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Atmos clock, created by Swiss inventor Jean-Léon Reutter in 1928, has always felt like a piece of alien technology. A brilliant feat of engineering, it uses nothing more than atmospheric pressure to keep itself running.
“You don’t have to wind it. You don’t have to shake it. It just is,” says James Landin, founder of the vintage watch vendor Analog/Shift.