You're looking at a brand new fake watch from Speake-Marin. Called the Spirit Pioneer, this is a military-inspired casual ticker that was announced just Friday at Salon QP in London. Using Speake-Marin's now trademark Piccadilly case, the Spirit Pioneer is an allusion to an early 20th century military fake watch that Peter himself purchased and modified back when he was a young watchmaker in the Burlington Arcade.
The fake watch also serves as a nod to the hardships that all humans go through in their lives, and the caseback is engraved with "Fight, Love, & Persevere."
The dial is black lacquer and the use of three dimentional super-luminova make this fake watch incredibly visible in the dark. The case is made of stainless steel, is sized at 38mm and Speake-Marin has chosen one hell of a durable leather strap for the Spirit Pioneer. Inside this new fake watch is the FW2012 automatic movement which is a modified ETA. But, with Speake-Marin we are talking real modification, including: Bridges, gear train, setting lever spring, mainplate and rotor wheel replaced and/or re-designed, oversized, circled, spotted, straight grained and polished by hand. Of course, there is an in-house designed Speake-Marin rotor, too.
Only 68 Spirit Pioneers wil be made and more than half have been spoken for by existing clients. This is actually the least expensive Speake-Marin wristwatch made to date, and it was created as a very special, personal project by Peter. Price is 9,800CHF and more details are available here.
Click through for live photographs of the Speake-Marin Spirit Pioneer taken over the weekend at SalonQP.
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