Mestre relojoeiro Dominique Loiseau (1949 - 2013)

Faleceu o mestre relojoeiro francês Dominique Loiseau. A notícia foi dada hoje pelo seu atelier de alta relojoaria. Loiseau criou um célebre relógio Rose des Temps, o Blancpain 1735 e outras obras-primas. Recentemente, Loiseau tinha assinado um contrato de cooperação com a Girard-Perregaux, para quem estava a desenvolver uma Grande Complicação, que deverá estar pronta ou em fase de ultimação.

Estação Cronográfica, que se referiu ao longo dos últimos anos à extraordinária obra criativa de Loiseau, inclina-se perante a sua memória.

O comunicado do Atelier Loiseau:

Dominique Loiseau has passed away.

It is with a profound emotion that we have to announce the death of Dominique Loiseau, our partner and friend. The watchmaking world has lost a visionary and creative genius who had imagined and created mechanical masterpieces which revolutionized and inspired contemporary Haute Horlogerie. He was also the co-founder of the Atelier Loiseau which we created together with him to transmit and perpetuate his talent, his spirit and technical virtuosity in manufacturing complicated Haute Horlogerie timepieces. During the last months is precarious health deteriorated enough to gradually keep him away from his workbench where he loved to practice is talent with passion.

Thanks to such legacy, made of a unique know-how as well as certain unpublished developments, the Atelier Loiseau will pursue Dominique's work and continue to create exceptional and ingenious mechanical marvels, so to perpetuate his name, synonym for a different watchmaking Art which, in this XXI century beginning, tends to disappear.