Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Infinite Halo | INTRODUCING

Tom Austin

• Jaeger-LeCoultre unveils its newest Atmos clock, that includes a hanging white lacquered dial.
• Pushed by temperature modifications within the environment, the Atmos can run perpetually due to its ingenious respiratory drive mechanism.
• Unveiling throughout Milan Design Week, the Atmos Infinite Halo proves that JLC is a drive to be reckoned with relating to up to date horological design.

One of many lovely issues about watchmaking, or on this case, clockmaking, is that whereas watchmakers and types do push boundaries with their on a regular basis merchandise, a few of them additionally take pleasure in actually letting their hair down and difficult what’s attainable in horology – and regardless of clocks not having the identical mainstream enchantment as wristwatches, there are just a few manufacturers that also showcase their craft on this approach. Jaeger-LeCoultre has been perfecting its line of groundbreaking Atmos clocks for nearly a century now, and 2025 marks the discharge of its newest model, the Atmos Infinite Halo.

The Atmos clock from JLC first appeared in 1928, a non-commercial idea piece now often known as the Atmos 0. Created by Swiss engineer Jean-Léon Reutter, the clock used mercury to react to temperature modifications and function an growth gadget to offer an influence supply for the clock’s motion. Over the a long time that adopted, JLC has produced over 500,000 Atmos clocks, all with various levels of technological enhancements over time. They signify not solely JLC’s engineering capabilities but additionally their ingenuity relating to horological design aesthetics. In 2022, the Atmos Infinite was launched, laying the muse for the Infinite Halo, the model’s newest interpretation of the design.

Encased in a seamless glass cupboard, the design is predicated on early Atmos clocks, which had been enclosed in glass bell-jar domes. It affords a 360-degree view of every thing that’s occurring within the clock’s internal workings, one thing I’m certain everybody will be pleased about. Whereas advanced in its mechanics, the design is minimalist (with slight echoes of Artwork Deco), even going to the lengths of incorporating the mechanism on virtually invisible glass helps to make sure no element goes unnoticed.

JLC might have simply let the clock mechanism do the speaking, however the brand new Atmos Halo doesn’t cease there. The massive, halo-like dial incorporates a flawless, white-lacquered end, taking ten functions of lacquer to finish. If anybody understands the intricacies of dial ending, it’s Jaeger-LeCoultre, with their in-house capabilities permitting them to attain the purest of finishes and create gorgeous outcomes. The dial on the Atmos Halo is not any completely different, one way or the other managing to make what is basically simply plain white look fascinating on the similar time. The dial particulars are simply as intricate, with a metallic outer ring that includes indentations for a minute observe and high-polished, utilized hour markers. Giant polished fingers prolong throughout the dial, curving across the convex edge profile of the primary dial plate.

The Atmos Halo’s openworked development is each purposeful and aesthetically pleasing. The calibre’s capabilities are easy; no high-end complication right here. It’s a pure, time-only piece, however the magnificence lies within the energy supply. The motion runs perpetually through a bellows system, drawing vitality from variations in ambient air temperature. That is attainable due to a hermetically sealed, gas-filled capsule linked to the clock’s drive spring. Because the atmospheric temperature fluctuates, it permits the gasoline to increase and contract, transferring the bellows and in flip, winding the mainspring.

Except you reside in a vacuum, the temperature fluctuates even in probably the most delicate of environments, and JLC’s ingenious design signifies that even a fluctuation of only one diploma can energy the clock for a whole two days.  Subsequently, in real-world environments like your property workplace, the Atmos Halo will proceed working just about ceaselessly with no human intervention. It goes with out saying that the whole mechanism is handled to the basic Jaeger-LeCoultre ranges of ending, with hand-polishing, brushed surfaces, and côtes de Genève all through.

Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Infinite Halo worth and availability

The Jaeger-LeCoultre Atmos Infinite Halo is launching on the eighth of April at Milan Design Week; it’s obtainable immediately from Jaeger-LeCoultre and is restricted to 100 items. Worth: CHF 18,400, A$32,200