The Atmos is one of the most poe\u00adtic crea\u00adti\u00adons in watch\u00adma\u00adking: a clock that lives on air. Yet even icons can be reimagined.<\/p>\n
In 2008, renow\u00adned desi\u00adgner Marc News\u00adon gave the Atmos a radi\u00adcal new face: the Atmos 561. Housed in a hand-blown Bac\u00adca\u00adrat crys\u00adtal bubble, the move\u00adment seems to float in space. It dis\u00adplays hours, minu\u00adtes, months and the moon pha\u00adse, a blend of sci\u00adence, art and sculpture.<\/p>\n
Two years later, he went fur\u00adther with the Atmos 566: insi\u00adde its crys\u00adtal cocoon are an equa\u00adti\u00adon-of-time dis\u00adplay and a sky chart. It beca\u00adme more than a clock, the cos\u00admos in miniature.<\/p>\n
In 2016, News\u00adon unvei\u00adled the Atmos 568. Its moul\u00added Bac\u00adca\u00adrat crys\u00adtal case with roun\u00added cor\u00adners crea\u00adtes the illu\u00adsi\u00adon of a move\u00adment levi\u00adta\u00adting in mid-air. The moon pha\u00adse is so pre\u00adcise that it will be off by only one day every 3,821 years.<\/p>\n
News\u00adon\u2019s Atmos crea\u00adti\u00adons show that reinven\u00adti\u00adon does not betray tra\u00addi\u00adti\u00adon but deepens it. They car\u00adry the soul of the Atmos into the 21st century.<\/p>\n