The brand was acquired in 2012 by one of the only independent women in the watch industry, an entrepreneur and arts enthusiast, Mrs. Christelle Rosnoblet, now CEO & President of Speake Marin.

Driven by a resolutely entrepreneurial attitude and a determination to break free of existing watchmaking codes, Mrs Christelle Rosnoblet, offers a new approach to reading the time.

In parallel, she strives to offer impeccably crafted timepieces while preserving their strong personality and independent spirit.

Vividly embodying the inimitable Speake Marin style, the collection's bold, contemporary models are recognizable at first glance.

Speake Marin timepieces are developed, assembled and controlled in a fine watchmaking workshop called “Le Cercle des Horlogers”, which is based in the Neuchâtel area, Switzerland.

Mrs Christelle Rosnoblet, Speake Marin CEO and Owner, started to invest in “Le Cercle des Horlogers” in 2014, which is specialized in Haute Horlogerie movement research & development.

[2] After graduating as a watchmaker from Hackney Technical College in London in 1985,[3] Speake-Marin went to Switzerland to do an in-depth course in horological complications at the WOSTEP school in Neuchâtel.

There is a ‘topping tool’ mystery winding rotor for the automatic movement and a motto engraved on the case back “FIGHT, LOVE AND PERSEVERE”.

[24] Resilience, which has a white oven-fired vitreous enamel dial and central blued-steel hour, minute and second hands, was launched in 2012.

The colour of oven-fired enamel fades extremely slowly over centuries, so keeps looking new for far longer than normal dial treatments.

[29] He was then a consultant with significant involvement in the development of movement and case, as well as responsible for final quality control, for MB&F’s Horological Machine No.1, delivered from 2007.

[29] In the same year, he collaborated with Christophe Claret and Roger Dubuis to develop Chapter One for Maitres du Temps.