6/4/2023 0 Comments Gaia project watch it played![]() degree from Twente University of Technology in the Netherlands, in 1978. degree in physical chemistry from the State University of Utrecht in 1974 and a Ph.D. Everyone holds Laurent Barotte in very high regard for his approach to teaching, his desire to pass on his knowledge, and his encouraging attitude towards his watchmaking students. In 2015, Laurent Barotte won the “Artisan d’Art” award as part of the European Prize for Applied Arts (JEMA Jura). He is one of the leading experts in antique clocks and one of their staunchest advocates in current training courses which tend to prioritise individual timepieces over large-scale clocks. Laurent Barotte is a lively extrovert, yet also a humble and authentic man who pursues perfection in his passions for watchmaking and teaching. This restoration was the fruit of over 1,000 hours’ work invested by Laurent Barotte and his students in restoring monumental clocks within public spaces.įrom 2007-2015, in collaboration with his successive students, Laurent Barotte was involved in a magnificent collective work: creating, producing and installing the momumental “Quebec” clock in Montreal, as a gift from the Canton of Jura to the Canadian city on the banks of the Saint-Laurent river. He has employed his expert skills to complete some prestigious restoration work, including dedicating 4,000 hours from 2004-2006 to restoring an 18th century clock featuring a moving sphere from the Kunstkamera museum in St Petersburg, in collaboration with the Lycée Edgar Faure watchmaking school in Morteau, France.įrom 2010-2011, he also restored the clock (dated 1713) equipped with a monumental movement in the tower of the Porte Sainte-Pierre archway in Saint-Ursanne in 2016, in another collaboration with his students, he restored the clock (dated 1761) in the City Hall of Porrentruy. This clock was the fruit of 1,500 hours’ labour, and is a copy of the clock created in 1754 by Jean-Pierre Droz of La Ferrière, official clockmaker to the Prince-Bishopric of Basel. Together with his students, in 2004, he completed work on the clock for the centenary of the Vocational Centre in Porrentruy (the current Technical Division of the Jura Centre for Education and Training ), which was started four years earlier. In 2003, he became a full-time teacher specialising in clockmaking. ![]() The following year, he moved to Porrentruy with his family.Īlongside his teaching, he restored many 17 th to 19 th century clocks owned by private individuals or museums. In 1995, he began to teach part-time at the Technical College in Porrentruy, sharing his expertise in the theory and practice of watchmaking. For three years, Laurent Barotte worked in Bern, at Scherer, before putting his skills into practice with Dominique Mouret in Sainte-Croix, from 1987 to 1990, the year in which he set up his own clock restoration workshop near Fribourg. while defending fine mechanical watchmaking and exercising complete independence in component and product development and communication.Ĭraftsmanship and creation: Laurent Barotteīorn in Giromagny (territoire de Belfort) in 1961, Laurent Barotte obtained his professional certificate in watchmaking (CAP) in Besançon in 1980 he then pursued his studies at the watchmaking school in Le Locle in the micro-mechanics and clockmaking department (Technicum, 1982-1983) from 1983 to 1984, he worked at the Watch Museum of Le Locle, where he specialised in restoring antique clocks. ![]() Edouard Meylan, winner in the Spirit of Enterprise category, for his bold career and the entrepreneurial approach he has taken with the brand H.Nico de Rooij, winner in the History and research category for his outstanding career dedicated to research in micro-technology, for the pioneering role he has played in the processes of producing miniaturised silicon-based sensors and actuators, and for his contribution in sharing these technologies with the watchmaking industry.Laurent Barotte, winner in the Craftsmanship and creation category for his expertise in the field of clock restoration, for his contagious passion and for the ambition shown in the projects he has led with his students in restoring monumental clocks in public spaces.The jury, composed of 11 personalities active in the field of watchmaking, designated: On 22 September, Régis Huguenin-Dumittan, curator of the MIH and president of the jury of the Gaïa Prize, presented the awards to the winners of this 2022 edition. The unique Gaïa Prize honours the very best, those contributing to the reputation of watchmaking, its history, its technology or its industry.Īn institution of global renown, the Musée international d’horlogerie awards this prize in recognition of the spiritual heirs of watchmaking culture embodied in the museum’s collections and in the city itself. ![]()
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