I get email requests all the time to write about various watch brands and things going on in the watch industry. I am very choosey about who and what I write about, because not just anyone or anything is worth mentioning. I am proud to report I received and email in the last couple of days from Olivier Marguerat, who came on to produce his first book with legendary watch maker Peter Speake-Marin "A Passion For Watchmaking". Olivier asked me if I would mention this book and various other projects of Peter Speake-Marin on www.johnnyflyback.com, and I was thrilled to oblige his request.
For those of you who are not familiar with Peter Speake-Marin, he is truly one of the last important independent watch maker visionaries the world has seen in the last 20 years. Peter is an Englishman, who worked on masterpieces like Dent, Frodsham, Nielson, Breguet and Patek Philippe in London, which became the segway for his passion creativity and technical knowledge. He was recruited in 1996 by the illustrious manufacture Renaud & Papi (now Audemars Piguet Renaud &Papi) in Switzerland to develop high complications. During this time, he began acquiring his own machinery and constructed by hand a tourbillon pocket watch with two power trains. This timepiece became the Foundation Watch for his own independent atelier, established in 2000 in the picturesque village of Rolle, between Geneva and Lausanne. He has since been in demand by various watch companies such as MB&F, and Maitres du Temps where he was one of the three masters to develop the critically acclaimed Chapter One. He has also been asked to design and construct watches that are technical, prestigious and one of a kind.
Peter's new book " A Passion For Watchmaking" is a celebration of 10 years of Speake-Marin watchmaking, as well as an introduction of the brand new Marin 1 timepiece & in-house SM2 calibre. So go and buy your copy now at www.watchprint.com to get what could be one of the next biblical watch books ever written! I would like to congratulate and thank Olivier and Peter Speake-Marin for thinking of me to write this article, What an Honor!
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