Photographed May 2005, Switzerland © M.
Gisborne.
Born in 1968 in the county of Essex in England. First
studying horology London’s Hackney Technical College and
then later at the prestigious Swiss watch making school WOSTEP in Neuchatel.
This was followed by seven years in the heart of London’s Piccadilly,
where he worked as a specialist in the restoration of highly collectable
antique watches.
This period gave him the opportunity to be in intimate contact handling
and restoring literally hundreds of horological treasures from the greatest
watchmakers and houses in history. The inspiration and knowledge gleaned
from those treasures fired his desire to work and further his knowledge
of watchmaking to an even higher level.
Returning to Switzerland in 1996 to work on modern watches he specialised
in complications both building them and in their development.
In 2000, after 15 years of study he embarked on his personal dream; an
independent workshop in which he could design and build his own watches.
The Watch Workshop is the name of the company founded by Peter Speake-Marin
to realise his ideas in watchmaking..