A complicated watch is not necessarily a high-end watch.
Way and beyond the complex and reliable techniques, it is the degree of the finishing that makes the difference. To judge the perfection of a watch, care must be taken at every stage and for every detail.
In the high-end market, a lot of the surfaces are reworked, corrected and decorated to both improve the watch chronometry and make it beautiful.. These operations are performed with tools such as files, polishing buff, stones, burnishes and polishing drums. This craftsmanship enables to create surfaces which are polished, satin-finished, stretched, blurred, beaded, guilloche ...
Some are particularly decisive in terms of quality: those that distinguish the high-end and that the expert eye will recognise, identifying the technique of execution used.
Among the techniques, bevelling is a powerful indication. This meticulous work, which consists of highlighting the edges of the pieces with bright lines, acts as the trademark of the highend when it is carried out to perfection. The authenticity of hand-made bevelling is shown by the sharpness of the incoming and outgoing edges, which the machine cannot produce to date.
Some Speake-Marin engraved designs involve such an astonishing level of detail that is impossible to achieve them by human hand. In such cases, Speake-Marin harnesses some of the latest technologies, including extremely innovative chemical etching processes, to create amazingly intricate motifs.
The dials, movements and cases of Speake-Marin timepieces feature some of the most stunning hand-engraving ever seen in watchmaking – intricate patterns, detailed depictions and sublime finishing that catch the eye and take the breath away in equal measure.
Some Speake-Marin engraved designs involve such an astonishing level of detail that is impossible to achieve them by human hand. In such cases, Speake-Marin harnesses some of the latest technologies, including extremely innovative chemical etching processes, to create amazingly intricate motifs.
The dials, movements and cases of Speake-Marin timepieces feature some of the most stunning hand-engraving ever seen in watchmaking – intricate patterns, detailed depictions and sublime finishing that catch the eye and take the breath away in equal measure.
