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Peter Speake is a British master watchmaker known for having started the Speake-Marin watchmaking company

Early life
Peter Speake-Marin was born Peter Neville Speake in 1968← in Essex, England, to an English mother and Welsh father. After graduating as a watchmaker from Hackney Technical College in London in 1985, Speake-Marin went to Switzerland to do an in-depth course in horological complications at the WOSTEP school in Neuchâtel.

Watchmaking
He then returned to London and joined Somlo Antiques, heading the antique watch restoration department. After seven years at Somlo, Speake-Marin went back to Switzerland in 1996 to develop and build high-end complications for Renaud & Papi (now Audemars Piguet Renaud & Papi SA).

Peter and his business partner Daniela Marin founded Speake-Marin & Partner in 2002 in Rolle, Switzerland.

When he left the independent brand in 2017, he and Daniela started The Naked Watchmaker online platform “to inform and inspire future generations of watch lovers and collectors, giving everyone a unique insight into timepieces and the horological industry from an objective educational perspective.”