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Examples of my early Reutter Atmos clocks |
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Vintage Reutter Atmos Clocks |
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561 Marc Newson | Wanted Jubilee ATMOS 1983 | Wanted 150th 150th Anniversary | Modern Atmos Clocks | Vintage Reutter Atmos Clocks |
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The K 1 model from 1934 sold by Kirby, Beard & Co. of Paris (the ad below is bearing their name) Porcelain dial with fire gilt Gold case. I have never seen another one. If you have please let me know I'm always interested to communicate with other collectors |
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Nickel -plated Model PX 1 is the tall case version Also shown in the 1934 catalogue The case and the movement are perfect. All clocks I own work perfectly (except the Project below) |
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RB1 regulator model Also ca 1934 sold by Tiffany& Co. The movement is In perfect condition The case shows age and I love it . |
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Model PO1 -under a bell-jar, Ca 1934 My favorite clock All the clocks on this page have The mecury motor. The thermal Motor (inside the round box behind the movement) transforms Thermal energy into mechanical Energy. The clock movement uses the mechanical energy to drive the movement of the balance and display the time The Atmos clock consumes 60 times less energy than a wrist watch |
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Jean-Leon Reutter considered by what means a perpetual clock based on the expansion of liquids or gases could be made, and in 1926 the first commercial Atmos clock appeared. It had a torsion pendulum driven from a train, powered by a spring wound by the driving mechanism. A sealed U shaped glass tube containing liquefied gas in each side, separated by mercury, has one side immersed in liquid of high specific heat insulated by a vacuum jacket; the other is exposed to the air in the glass dome protecting the clock. A slight rise in temperature pushes the gas in the exposed side, forcing mercury into the other side insulated from the temperature change, unbalancing the mechanism on its axis. A ratched wheel and click communicates the motion to the driving spring; reduction of temperature reverses the motion but still winds the spring. |
