watch brand industry watch making founded 2002 founder peter speake marin headquarters bursins switzerland area served worldwide products luxury timepieces website www.speake marin.com peter speake marin speake marin is a watchmaking company specializing in high end timepieces . it was founded in 2002 by english watchmaker peter speake marin and is based in bursins switzerland . peter speake marin was born peter neville speake in 1968 in essex england to an english mother and welsh father . 1 after graduating as a watchmaker from hackney technical college in london in 1985 2 speake marin went to switzerland to do an in depth course in horological complications at the wostep school in neuch tel. 3 he then returned to london and joined somlo antiques heading the antique watch restoration department . after seven years at somlo 4 speake marin went back to switzerland in 1996 to develop and build high end complications for renaud & papi now audemars piguet renaud & papi sa . 5 contents 1 key timepieces 2 the foundation watch 3 the original piccadilly 4 marin 1 mk i 5 marin 2 thalassa 6 spirit 7 renaissance 8 resilience 9 collaborations 10 references 11 external links key timepieces edit since the launch of speake marin the speake marin collection has grown from time only wristwatches to include models with a single hand ; date ; jumping hours ; perpetual calendars ; tourbillons and minute repeaters ; 6 while featuring fired enamel ; semi skeletonised ; hand engraved ; and multi level dials . the foundation watch edit the first timepiece to bear the speake marin name was a hand made tourbillon pocket watch called the foundation watch because it formed a template for future speake marin watches 7 through the spade shaped hands and pleated crown watchmaker s topping tool motif here in the shape of the tourbillon cage and hand engraving . 8 completing this unique piece helped peter speake marin to become a member of the acad mie horlog re des cr ateurs ind pendants ahci 9 and it set the foundation paved for the speake marin collection . 10 the original piccadilly edit launched in 2002 peter speake marin s first wristwatch was the piccadilly . 11 various piccadilly series and unique pieces have been created since the first of which was the original piccadilly featuring enamel dial . the piccadilly case features screwed lugs pleated crown and a drum like case shape which was inspired by the movement holders peter speake marin worked while at renaud & papi 12 and named after his seven years in antique restoration at somlo in piccadilly london . 13 marin 1 mk i edit launched in 2009 the marin 1 features speake marin s first in house movement a grade 5 titanium case flame blued hands two piece oven fired enamel dial and stainless steel piccadilly case . its three concentric rings for the minutes were inspired by early pocket watch chronographs . 9 marin 1 mk i was the first speake marin model to feature the sm2 calibre an in house calibre designed and manufactured by speake marin . it took three years to develop . 14 sm2 movement the sm2 calibre has been described as a watchmaker s movement 15 the balance wheel is large weight of balance is 0118gr inertia 25 mg.cm2 and oscillates at 21 600 vph . the plates and bridges are made in untreated german silver . all bridges levers and the mainplate are finished by hand circling spotting and polished . the rotor wheel angles are hand finished then the surface is mirror finished . all pivots are burnished . the sm2 has a power reserve of 72 hours features 29 jewels and contains 211 components altogether . marin 2 thalassa marin 2 thalassa edit in 2010 the marin 2 thalassa was launched featuring a hand wound version of the sm2 the sm2m m standing for manual winding . the thalassa features a blue steel outer dial incorporating a date window and open inner dial through which the hand finished movement is visible . 16 spirit mkii spirit edit in 2011 the spirit collection was launched with the spirit pioneer model . the spirit pioneer has a black lacquered dial ; central hour minute and second hands ; roman and numerals at 12 3 6 and 9 o clock ; four pairs of hour markers . the hands indices and 60 minute markers have been filled with three dimensional super luminova that glows green in the dark . the piccadilly case is in stainless steel . there is a topping tool mystery winding rotor for the automatic movement and a motto engraved on the caseback fight love and persevere . 17 renaissance renaissance edit the renaissance minute repeater tourbillon was launched in 2012 . renaissance features an open dial 18k red gold piccadilly case heat blued foundation hands . the 60 second tourbillon cage is in the shape of the speake marin topping tool motif . 18 each renaissance is a unique piece with a different hand engraved design on the movement . 19 resilience resilience edit resilience which has a white oven fired vitreous enamel dial and central blued steel hour minute and second hands was launched in 2012 . the colour of oven fired enamel fades extremely slowly over centuries so keeps looking new for far longer than normal dial treatments . 20 21 collaborations edit in 2006 peter speake marin worked on the excenter tourbillon with harry winston . 22 he was then a consultant with significant involvement in the development of movement and case as well as responsible for final quality control for mb & f s horological machine no. 1 delivered from 2007 . 22 in the same year he collaborated with christophe claret and roger dubuis to develop chapter one for maitres du temps . 22 in 2009 with daniel roth he developed chapter two for ma tres du temps . 13 references edit report on the 2011 international chronometry competition by the magazine of haute horlogerie bishop kathryn . interview peter speake marin speake marin . watchpro.com . http www.bhi.co.uk sites default files speake % 20marin.pdf speake marin creating something people want europa star magazine . europastar.com . speake marin goes back to his roots with renaissance tourbillon minute repeater . watchtime.com . 2012 04 13 . ahci union of free creators . montre24.com . retrieved 2013 09 29 . a visit with peter speake marin timezone . people.timezone.com . journal.hautehorlogerie.org peter speake marin dream merchant http journal.hautehorlogerie.org en article peter speake marin dream merchant a b skellern ian july 2010 an anglo swiss affair http www.speake marin.com images articles speake marin.php cite error invalid ref tag ; name skellern .2 c ian .28 july 2010.29 . e2 .80.9 can anglo swiss affair.e2 .80.9 d. 2c qp magazine defined multiple times with different content see the help page . goldsmith meehna 17 january 2012 you ve come a long way baby speake marin introduces the renaissance watchmatchmaker.com http www.watchmatchmaker.com brands peter speake marin you % e2 % 80 % 99ve come a long way baby speake marin introduces the % e2 % 80 % 9crenaissance % e2 % 80 % 9d.html monochrome.nl the speake marin original piccadilly collection with enamel dia http www.monochrome.nl speake marin original piccadilly collection enamel dial purists pro a 12 month review of peter speake marin s piccadilly http indepth.watchprosite.com show nblog.post ti 382726 a b swisstime.ch speake marin peter speake marin http www.swisstime.ch index.php id 50 & idm 869 cite error invalid ref tag ; name swisstime.ch . e2 .80.9 cspeake marin peter speake marin defined multiple times with different content see the help page . purists pro musings on peter speake marins amazing sm2 inhouse caliber and more ... http ahci.watchprosite.com show nblog.post & ti 627796 monochrome basel news new speake marin in house movement sm2 http www.monochrome.nl basel news new speake marin in house movement sm2 hodinkee hands on with peter speake marin s marin 2 thalassa http www.hodinkee.com blog 2010 9 15 hands on with peter speake marins marin 2 thalassa video.html a blog to watch http www.ablogtowatch.com peter speake marin spirit mark 2 watch watchtime.com speake marin goes back to his roots with renaissance tourbillon minute repeater http www.watchtime.com featured speake marin renaissance minute repeater tourbillon wthejournal peter speake marin renaissance man http www.wthejournal.com en news view peter speake marin renaissance man monochrome speake marin introduces another novelty resilience http www.monochrome.nl speake marin introduces another novelty resilience escapement.uk.com peter speaks my languag http www.escapement.uk.com articles independent % e2 % 80 % 99s day speake marin resilience 42mm steel enamel.html a b c montre 24 http montre24.com watchmagazine 55 cite error invalid ref tag ; 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