A £200 earphone is money no object? Mate, you've got to stop regarding Beats as the high end.
One near-future option,
not money no object (probably at the same lower-budget range as your Atomic whatevers) but a three-button remote that works with WP.
a-JAYS Five - Jays
Unfortunately three-button remotes for WP are thin on the ground. Monster and the above, that's pretty much it as far as I know.
Obviously if you go Bluetooth there are far more options, but you generally lose in sound quality. One sortof-kindof compromise is pairing a good pair of earphones with a decent bluetooth remote, like the Samsung HS3000 or the Nokia BH-111. Hooking these up to a decent in-ear phone such as the
Westone 4R results in a compromise sure, since what you're hearing is only 320K SBC, but a good earphone will make the most of the Bluetooth signal. The upside is that for situations where you really want quality, you can unjack the phone from the BT remote and go wired. You lose convenience doing that since you won't get any controls, but you have the flexibility of being able to do both.