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London Calling
Speake Marin
Peter Speake-Marin’s success a force among independent watchmakers is a decades-long journey, and much of it centered in London. This year his firm Speak-Marin recalls those years with a special edition chronograph designed for the Fine Watch Room at Harrods in London. The London Chronograph pays tribute to SpeakeMarin’s early years as a watchmaker restoring vintage timepieces
that often required work on famed calibers from Valjoux, including
the Valjoux 92, which is found inside classic Patek Philippe, Heuer
and Rolex (among many others) made in the 1950s and 1960s. This
tribute London Chronograph is a 42mm titanium-cased chronograph powered by a vintage Valjoux 92 caliber, beating at 18,000
bph. On top is a multi-level white dial displaying Arabic numbers
that alternate with Roman numerals, as seen on the Speake-Marin
Gothic Velsheda limited edition. The red 12 has classical connotations and associations with early English pocket and wristwatches.
Price: $19,000.
Also new from Speake-Marin is this very limited (8-pieces) black
dial version of one of the watchmaker’s earlier models called Resilience. Cased in 42mm red gold, the newest Resilience features the
firm’s Piccadilly case with three central Speake-Marin signature
“Foundation” style hands in colored red gold and a characteristic
pleated crown. Resilience is equipped with a Vaucher 3002 automatic movement. Price: $27,200.
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Wristwatch | 2016