I like almost everything Australian Marc Newson designs, and when he focuses on haute horlogerie the outcome is usually fabulous – like the highly covetable Ikepod range. So when he collaborated with Jaeger-LeCoultre on a reinterpretation of their classic Atmos range of clocks the outcome was always going to be special.

Reinterpreted in a clean, minimalist design, the Baccarat crystal case houses a new movement – the 566 Calibre, which tells time but also displays the month, date, astrological sign, the cardinal points and to top it all off – a view of the night sky as seen in the northern hemisphere.

But the truly special thing about this clock is the core of the Atmos movement – it is a nearly perpetual machine, relying on temperature changes to wind its main spring and power the movement (as little as 1 degree change every day and it will run nigh on forever). 60 million Atmos clocks combined consume less power than one 15 watt lightbulb…

This is another case of “if you have to ask how much, you can’t afford it” – two limited editions will be made, 48 in clear crystal and just 28 in resplendent blue crystal.