Jaeger-LeCoultre

White Marina Jaeger-LeCoultre, “Atmos”, Ref. 5810. Made in the 1960s. Fine and very rare, rectangular gilt brass and perspex (lucite) mantel clock with “aquarium” panels, wound by barometric pressure changes. Accompanied by the original fitted box. Glazed on 4 sides and on the top with perspex (lucite) panels with gilt angelfish and water plants, the front panel with aperture to view the pendulum, stepped plinth base. White with applied gilt brass faceted dart indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals. Gilt brass dauphine hands with black tips. Cal. 526-5, gilt brass, vacuum chamber winding the going barrel, lever escapement driven by annular tension pendulum, locking screw in the base below the pendulum disc. Case, movement and vacuum signed. Dim. 23 x 18 x 14 cm. Notes Production of this reference started in 1962. Home aquariums became popular in the 1950s and the use of tropical fish as decorative motifs has become associated with the 1950s and 60s. The Perspex panels, with three-dimensional inset castings of fish and plants, were no doubt inspired by the famous Dunhill “aquarium” table lighters of the 1950s.