AN OBJET D’ART HONOURING THE CRAFT SKILLS OF LA GRANDE MAISON’S MÉTIERS RARES® ATELIER Continuing the story of the remarkable Atmos clock as an objet d’art, Jaeger-LeCoultre presents the Atmos Régulateur ‘Cherry Blossom’ at Homo Faber in Venice. There could be no better setting in which to showcase the time-honoured skills of La Grande Maison’s Métiers Rares workshops: presenting the priceless human skills behind the creation of rare objects, Homo Faber brings together 15

From the moment it first saw the light of day in 1928, the Atmos clock has been an object of fascination, the beauty of its mechanism more than equalled by its apparently magical way of working. Mankind has long been fascinated by the idea of perpetual motion machines – devices that work autonomously and forever, with no external source of energy. But nobody has ever succeeded in making one, for the simple reason that, according to the laws of physics, it is impossible. Howev