Spirit Wing Commander

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PETER SPEAKE-MARIN
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HISTORY
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FOUNDATION POCKET WATCH
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TIME PIECES
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SPIRIT COLLECTION
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SPIRIT MKII
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SPIRIT MKII DLC
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SPIRIT SUIGENERIC
22-23 • SPIRIT WING COMMANDER
24-25 • SPIRIT SEAFIRE
26-27 • J-CLASS COLLECTION
28-29 • RESILIENCE
32-33 • SERPENT CALENDAR
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VELSHEDA
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TOURBILLON MAGISTER
42-43 • CABINET DES MYSTERES
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TRIAD
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FACE TO FACE
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BORN WATCH
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BESPOKE PIECES
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SAVOIR FAIRE
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Welcome to my world.
Welcome to the world of Speake-Marin.
Speake-Marin timepieces share a unique contemporary
style and design. Yet, with all my creations there is
also a clear connection to traditional watchmaking of
the early 20th century and before.
My timepieces are a representation of myself as a
watchmaker, reinventing horology in my own way. Though
I’m very much living in the 21st century, my horological
influences date from the past.
Speake-Marin is living, breathing watchmaking and my
watches are modern classics, timepieces that will truly
endure.
Peter Speake-Marin
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HISTORY
of Speake-Marin
Speake-Marin was founded in Switzerland in 2002 by English
watchmaker Peter Speake-Marin. Peter’s skill and vision have ensured
that Speake-Marin’s timepieces are as technically superlative as they
are aesthetically distinctive.
After graduating as a watchmaker in London, Peter
went to Switzerland to further his knowledge of
horological complications at WOSTEP, the Swiss watch
training and education school in Neuchâtel. He returned
to London to set up and manage the watch restoration
department of Somlo Antiques in Piccadilly and, after
seven years restoring vintage timepieces, returned to
Switzerland in 1996 before establishing his own atelier
near Lake Geneva at the turn of the millennium.
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Foundation
Pocket Watch
The first timepiece to bear the Speake-Marin name was a tourbillon pocket watch that Peter christened his ‘Foundation Watch’. The basic case design is influenced by early marine chronometers,
while the shape of its hands, fluted crown, topping-tool motif of the tourbillon cage and detailed
hand-engraving are all features that grace the Speake-Marin collection today.
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Timepieces
Speake-Marin timepieces are instantly recognisable
thanks in no small part to their now iconic Piccadilly
case. Named after Peter’s formative time in antique
restoration in Piccadilly, London, the case features
distinctive lugs and fluted crown. .
The Speake-Marin collection has grown to encompass
complications including jumping hours, perpetual calendars,
tourbillons and minute repeaters, with fired-enamel, semiskeletonised, hand-engraved, and multi-level dials.
Spirit Collection
The Speake-Marin Spirit inhabits a masculine world
inspired by the British military. Dress code can be
casual, but courage is a must. With the Spirit, you
can practically smell the heady blend of high-octane
aviation fuel and the sweat of nervous anticipation.
Models in the Spirit collection are robust in construction
– and attitude – and feature exceptional legibility, both
day and night. Automatic winding and/or long power
reserves ensure that there is more than enough energy
on tap for even the most testing of conditions.
While the Spirit exudes a casual aura, its culture
and class can’t help but shine through, and it looks
just as good with a flight suit as with formal attire.
“Fight, Love & persevere”
isn’t just the Spirit motto – it’s a way of life.
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Spirit MKII
PIC.20000
Spirit Mk II
The Spirit Mk II features a highly legible dial displaying hours, minutes
and seconds that is as easy to read by night as by day thanks to its glowin-the-dark Super-LumiNova indications.
Features
• Central hours, minutes and seconds
• Highly legible three-dimensional one-piece dial
• Automatic winding movement with 4-5 day power reserve
• 42mm Piccadilly case in stainless steel
• Spirit motto “Fight, Love and Persevere” engraved on case back
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Spirit MKII DLC
PIC.20001
Spirit Mk II DLC
The black DLC − Diamond Like Carbon− case and dark dial imbues the
Spirit Mk II DLC with a casual, stealthy style, superbly setting off the
Super-LumiNova hands and markers..
Features
• Black DLC case
• Central hours, minutes and seconds
• Highly legible matte-black three-dimensional dial
• 42mm sandblasted stainless steel case coated with matte black DLC
• Automatic winding movement with 4-5 day power reserve
• Spirit motto “Fight, Love and Persevere” engraved on case back
Spirit/Suigeneric
Speake-Marin has a partnership with Suigeneric of New York which sees the American
company design and create a range of bespoke
hand-waxed cotton NATO straps for the Spirit collection. Every one of the hand-sewn and
hand-waxed straps is a ‘unique piece’, the
stunning combinations of colours enhancing
the military feel of this collection. The straps
also feature custom packaging and the label:
“Suigeneric for Speake-Marin”.
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Spirit MKII/Suigeneric
Strap ref.: SUI01
Strap ref.: SUI02
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Spirit MKII DLC/Suigeneric
Strap ref.: SUI03
Strap ref.: SUI04
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Spirit Wing Commander
PIC.20002
Spirit Wing Commander
The Spirit Wing Commander features large date, power reserve indicator,
offset ‘topping tool’ seconds wheel and grade 5 titanium case.
Features
• Central hours, minutes and seconds
• Highly legible matte-black three-dimensional dial
• Large date
• 48-hour power reserve indicator
• ‘Topping tool’ seconds wheel flush with dial
• 42mm titanium Piccadilly case
• Spirit motto “Fight, Love and Persevere” engraved on case back
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Spirit Seafire
PIC.20003
Spirit Seafire
The Spirit Seafire is a two-pusher chronograph featuring date,
offset ‘topping tool’ seconds wheel and grade 5 titanium case.
Features
• Central hours, minutes and seconds
• Chronograph: central seconds; 30-minute and 12-hour counters
• Date at 3 o’clock
• Highly legible matte-black three-dimensional dial
• ‘Topping tool’ seconds wheel flush with dial
• 42mm titanium Piccadilly case
• Spirit motto “Fight, Love & Persevere” engraved on case back
J-Class Collection
After the exhilaration of a white-knuckle ride on
a finely-tuned racing yacht – heeling on a broad
reach with its rail near the ocean and spray cutting
the air – comes the yacht club, replete with rich
wood-panelled walls and vintage navigation
instruments. And it is in the rarefied ambience of
the club that the high-class pedigree of the SpeakeMarin J-Class timepieces comes into its own.
The yachting J-Class has its origins in the oldest
sporting race in the world, the America’s Cup. J
Class yachts exude timeless elegance, sophistication
and complexity in equal measure, as do the SpeakeMarin timepieces in this highly prestigious collection.
Elegance, sophistication and complexity are no
longer terms exclusive to the sea – the wrist and the
warm, welcoming atmosphere of the gentlemen’s
club are now also the natural home of the J-Class.
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J-Class Resilience
PIC.10010
PIC.10012
Resilience
Combining a beautiful, oven fired enamel dial that will keep its youthful freshness
for centuries with heat-blued hands and the iconic Piccadilly case, Resilience is an
enduring creation that will well and truly stand the test of time.
Features
• Central hours, minutes and seconds
• Oven-fired white enamel dial
• Hand-finished automatic winding movement with 4-5 day power reserve
• 38mm or 42mm Piccadilly case in stainless steel or 18k red gold
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J-Class Resilience
PIC.10023
PIC.10009
PIC.10011
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J-Class Serpent Calendar
PIC.10001
Serpent Calendar
In addition to central hour, minutes and seconds, a serpentine hand in the centre of
the dial indicates the date. The ensemble of bright, heat-blued steel hands contrasts
beautifully against the white dial.
PIC.10006
Features
• Central hours, minutes and seconds
• Date indicated by central ‘serpent’ hand
• Th
ree-position crown
with rapid date adjustment and stop-seconds
• Hand-finished automatic winding movement with 4-5 day power reserve
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8mm or 42mm Piccadilly case in stainless steel or 18k red gold
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J-Class Serpent Calendar
PIC.10000
PIC.10005
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J-Class Velsheda
PIC.10022
Velsheda
With aesthetics echoing that of a compass, Velsheda offers a minimalistic display of time, using
a single blued-steel hand to indicate hours and minutes. Two superimposed ‘topping tool’ motifs
– one displaying seconds, the other the hub of the double-ended hand – overlap, creating everchanging patterns that bring the dial to life.
Features
• Single hand indicating time
• Central ‘topping tool’ seconds wheel
• White-lacquered multi-layered dial
• Hand-finished automatic winding movement with 4-5 day power reserve
• 42mm Piccadilly case in stainless steel
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J-Class Tourbillon Magister
PIC.10030
Tourbillon Magister
Features
Magister Tourbillon features a hand-finished 60-second tourbillon,
white-lacquered dial and automatic-winding movement with platinum
micro-rotor visible through the display back.
• Central hours and minutes
• Hand-finished 60-second tourbillon
• White-lacquered, multi-level dial
• Automatic-winding movement with platinum micro-rotor
• Power reserve over 72 hours
• 42mm Piccadilly case in titanium
• Display back
Cabinet Des Mystères
Cast your mind back to the late 19th century and a book-lined room of a
famous gentlemen’s club in London, filled to the brim with all manner of
exotic objects, animals and scientific instruments from all over the world.
The rich smell of leather-bound books blends
with smoke rising from a pipe on the desk;
stuffed animals pay testament to a natural
philosopher’s recent voyage to newly discovered
lands; and incomprehensible devices hint at
unimaginable possibilities.
The diverse contents of the room provide answers
to most of the outside world’s conundrums,
enigmas and riddles. However, there was one
place that guarded its secrets very closely:
Cabinet des Mystères.
Mechanical Art
Mechanical timepieces are usually very logical
instruments. Very carefully calculated power trains, gear ratios and metallurgy are the
natural realm of mathematicians, engineers
and watchmakers; people for whom form follows function as day follows night, and the two
hands of a watch indicate hours and minutes.
However, dispensing with the constraints of
cold logic allows much more space for art to
flourish and it’s here you will find the SpeakeMarin Mechanical Art collection. These models
will cause you to think, feel and reflect.
Triad
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Cabinet des Mystères Mechanical Art Triad
Triad celebrates the mystical number three with triple hour-minute indications over
a stunning open dial revealing a micro-mechanical ballet of black and gold gears, all
set in a steel case crowned with a regal red gold bezel.
PIC.30000
Features
• 3 x hour and minute Foundation-style hands in heat-blued steel
• Central ‘topping-tool’ seconds wheel
• ‘Triad’ top plate circular-grained, rhodium-plated
• Outer black dial with white Roman numerals in relief, all hand finished
•A
utomatic winding movement with 4-5 day power reserve
• 42mm Piccadilly case in stainless steel with 18K red gold bezel
Triad full steel . PIC.30003
Fine Art Pieces
Speake-Marin wristwatches can serve as the
perfect canvas for Peter Speake-Marin and invited
artists to demonstrate the full extent of their craft
and their unbounded imaginations.
Speake-Marin’s Fine Art Pieces harness various
artistic disciplines to create cut-out, sculpted,
hand-engraved, chemically etched and maki-e
lacquered dials as well as gem-set cases. A work
of art on your wrist.
Face to Face
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Cabinet des Mystères Fine Art Pieces Skull
Face to Face’s intricate double black skull engraving has been etched onto the dial using
an innovative chemical etching technique. The detailed depiction may remind us of our own
mortality but the message is upbeat: Let’s appreciate the time we have. Different finishes
ensure each Face to Face Watch in this limited edition is a unique piece.
PIC.60013
Features
• Intricate double black skull engraving, chemically etched on dial
• Dial in German silver, surface circular grained
• Automatic winding movement with 4-5 day power reserve
• 42mm Piccadilly case in stainless steel
• Polished stainless steel Foundation hands
Born Watch
Cabinet des Mystères Fine Art Pieces Born Watch
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Born Watch features a hand-engraved animal on the dial, representing the owner’s year of
birth according to the Chinese calendar and, visible through the display back, a diamond-set
constellation of stars as seen in the night sky at the place and in the year of the owner’s birth.
PIC.60011
Features
• Central hours, minutes and seconds
•H
and-engraved animal in 18k gold on the dial,
representing the owner’s year of birth
•D
iamond-set constellation set in a gold plate visible through the
display back, representing the owner’s place and year of birth
• Owner’s name, date of birth
and place of birth engraved into the caseback
• Manual-winding Eros movement with five-day power reserve
• 42mm Piccadilly case in 18k gold
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Adámas
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PIC.60011
Adámas in ancient Greek means ‘unbreakable’ and is
the origin of the word ‘diamond’, so it is an appropriate
name for this specially-commissioned, diamond-set
unique piece. Adámas features an 18k gold dial set
with 560 scintillating diamonds. The exceptional dial
is the work of talented designer Fiona Krüger.
Features
• Central hour and minutes
• ‘Foundation’ hands in polished stainless steel
• 18k gold dial set with 560 scintillating diamonds
• 42mm Piccadilly case in 18K white gold, set with 239 diamonds
• Diamond-set 18k white gold crown
• Hand-finished SM2m in-house manual-winding movement
• Bezel set with 76 brilliant-cut Top Wesselton diamonds
Dong Son
PIC.60019
The Dong Son by Speake-Marin is a commissioned,
limited-edition timepiece featuring a red gold dial
stunningly etched away to leave a fascinating motif
inspired by the ancient bronze drums of the Dong
Son culture in the Red River Delta of Vietnam.
Features
• 18K 5N red gold dial
•D
ial decorated with intricate chemical etching inspired by
Dong Son drum motifs
• Central hours, minutes and seconds
• Pomme hands
• Automatic-winding movement with 4-5 day power reserve
• 38mm Piccadilly case in 18K 5N red gold
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Savoir-faire
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Speake-Marin uses time-honoured artistic techniques harnessing
the best of traditional craftsmanship – heat-blued steel hands;
pure white enamel dials; hand-engraved dials and movements;
finely finished movements and diamond-set cases – as well as
the latest horological technologies including innovative chemical
etching to engrave dials or cutting-edge techniques creating onepiece dials from resin, lacquer and Super-LumiNova.
Speake-Marin is a byword for high-end
horological savoir-faire.
Hand engraved SM2 movement
Foundation Watch tourbillon cage
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For Speake-Marin’s enamel dials, both sides of a
copper dial base are enamelled to ensure an even
tension within the construction of the material. Enamel
powder (essentially crushed glass) is applied manually
and heated in an oven at over 800°C. The process is
repeated many times to build up a consistent colour.
Before a final polishing stage, Roman numerals are printed
in black enamel with a melting point lower than the white
enamel so that the two colours do not mix. These fine
numerals are highly legible yet manage to avoid dominating
the dial – a subtle but significant detail highlighting the
brilliance of the otherwise pristine white dial
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SPIRIT COLLECTION
Spirit MKII
Spirit MKII DLC
PIC.20000
PIC.20001
Spirit/Suigeneric Straps
Strap ref.:
SUI01
Resilience
J-CLASS COLLECTION
PIC.10012
CABINET DES MYSTÈRES
PIC.10010
PIC.10023
Triad
PIC.30000
PIC.30003
Strap ref.:
SUI01
Strap ref.:
SUI01
Strap ref.:
SUI01
Serpent calendar
PIC.10011
PIC.10009
Face to Face
Born Watch
PIC.60013
PIC.60011
PIC.10005
PIC.10000
PIC.10006
PIC.10001
Wing Commander
Seafire
PIC.20002
PIC.20003
Velsheda
Tourbillon Magister
PIC.10022
PIC.10030
CONTACTS
Speake-Marin SA-Chemin en baffa 2 - 1183 Bursins- Switzerland
+41 (0) 21 695 26 55
info@speake-marin.com
www.speake-marin.com
CREDITS
Photography: Tomas Monka / Guy Lucas de Peslouan / Ming Thein / Gionibek Kudaibergen / Highlight pro.
Graphic design: Les Alchimistes
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