Speake-Marin’s world tour abruptly ended

Peter Speake-Marin was robbed in California last thursday. It was at the 25th day of his ‘world tour’ showing his newest 1in20 QP and prototypes to aficionados and watch collectors.

August 16th Peter Speake-Marin left Geneva to start his tour around the world for 5 and a half weeks. On Facebook Peter kept a daily journal of all of his ‘adventures’ and meetings. First stop was Shanghai and after that he planned to visit Beijing, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Sydney, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and Miami. Unfortunately his tour now came to an end, because he was robbed of all his belongings including all watches!



One of of the watches stolen is the above unique piece, the ‘Skulls’, a 1in20 unique piece. If this watch or one of the other watches is offered for sale, please get in contact with Peter Speake-Marin as it is most likely one of the stolen watches. You can contact Speake-Marin via his Facebook or his website.



Speake-Marin is an Independent watchmaker who only produces a limited number of watches each year. He’s not a huge manufacture with hundreds or even thousands of employees. All overhead, like taking the time to show his newest creations to collectors and aficionados around the world, will pressure heavily on his financial means. So i can only imagine this robbery will have a much bigger impact on a small watch brand like Speake-Marin, than on one of the big brands.
And in the mean time, if you see some Speake-Marin’s watches offered for sale… you know what you gotto do.

Here is a link to Speake-marin's Facebook and his website

Cheers,
Frank
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This is a very bad news....you're right Frank, the impact of this robbery on a small manufacture is huge compared to what it would be for many other bigger maisons.
I'm really sad, hope that Peter can recover all his timepieces...

Regards,
slide68

So sorry to hear this, hope they will get the criminals and recover what was stolen.

Zach T
Prime Time Forum Moderator
Hublot Forum Moderator

. . . it must be absolutely devastating for him. I sincerely hope those responsible are brought to justice. Our sincerest sympathies to Peter Speake-Marin!

Jack

The most important though is that Peter is fine physically. Should you see Peter Speake-Marin watches for sale on any given website, please do not hesitate to PM me or email Speake-Marin directly through the contact page of his website.

My thoughts go to all the crew down there in Rolle, it must hurt a lot to see watches difficult to replace taken away like this.

MarkS
AHCI and Other Fine Independent
Watchmakers Forum Moderator

Very bad news. Working in a start-up, I can certainly understand the implications of the robbery on the financials.
Hope he would be able to recover the stolen watches and items.

Best Regards,

chua
Panerai Forum Moderator

I hope Peter will eventually recover all the lost watches!

Jaw

Unbelievable Hopefully this case will be solved quickly. What can someone do with these stolen watches?