A case produced from 18k red-colored gold along with a diamond-set bezel provide the Speake-Marin Resilience see a refined and genteel appearance, the antithesis to the maker’s recent dalliance with wrist watches of the more utilitarian character like the Spirit collection.
The Resilience is really-named because its dial that is produced from oven-fired enamel will retain its immaculate appearance to have an eternity, but generally adding a bezel-filled with diamonds doesn’t merit a chosen overview of a wrist watch as it can certainly hardly be categorized as “new”. However, this specific model inside the Speake-Marin portfolio is a watch which signifies a synopsis from the qualities that have been a part of Peter’s collections since the title Speake-Marin first made an appearance on the watch dial.
There’s a particular refined “Englishness” to everything which Peter Speake-Marin produces. The names “Piccadilly” and “Eros” which denote this case-shape and calibres hark to a period when getting received his formal the watchmaking industry education first at Hackney School of The watchmaking industry then WOSTEP, Peter spent seven years doing restoration work on Somlo Antiques in London’s Piccadilly. As he go about creating watches under their own title, he set up the synonymous features which may be maintained through the first couple of uncertain years being an Independent Watch manufacturing company, right through to his recent expansion that has seen him undertake traders to assist him plan for future years.
His Piccadilly case is typically rounded, but is characterised by happily sticking out lugs, his out-size sculpted crown interrupts the understated profile from the case-side. His “topping tool” motif has become an expected feature much like the sexy shaped hands and the Roman numbers add a little no-nonsense elegance to his dials. The Resilience has many of these characteristic features as well as includes the solitary blued-screw. No more accustomed to “lock-in” the dial, as used to be the case – about this piece its inclusion serves to include balance – and that I suggest, continuity and retrospective because of its creator.
Much attention continues to be provided to the minutiae. The dial from the Resilience is created utilizing a copper base that is then enamelled on sides using traditional hand-crafting techniques, with every layer going through firing each and every application. The numbers which about this model are elongated and wisp-like are printed using black enamel prior to the final sprucing up stage. The bezel continues to be set with 36 Top Wesselton baguette-cut diamonds, but their arrangement provides an orderly type of resplendence and also the contrast using the quiet great thing about the enamel is great. Within the automatic-winding Eros Calibre includes a five day reserve of power featuring the Speake-Marin Mystery Rotor.
This season at Baselworld, Peter Speake-Marin had their own stand-alone booth in Hall 1.1, a part of an on-going brand-building strategy. It’s however reassuring to notice the signature features that have been a part of his portfolio since beginning out continue to be greatly in position, and greatly in evidence in models similar to this diamond edition of his Resilience watch. Priced at is 49,900 CHF.
