Bright dial colors are on the rise this year, with many notable brands, including Cartier and Oris, adding their own variations on this springtime trend at the recently wrapped Watches & Wonders exhibition. Speake-Marin, an independent haute horlogerie brand tracing its design DNA to the distinctive vision of its eponymous British founder, also joined the party with its new One&Two Openworked Dual Time Mint. The new watch takes the original One&Two Openworked Dual Time design and updates it with a fresh, minty green overall colorway accented with stark-looking matte black details.

Offered in both a 38-mm or 42-mm case size, both produced in black DLC-coated titanium, the watch follows in the steps of Speake-Marin watches prior, complete with bold, slightly flared lugs, a relatively round and straightforward main casebody, and a conical, almost diamond-shaped crown. The watch is secured to its namesake mint-green rubber strap, which fastens to the wrist with a steel pin buckle in a black DLC treatment that matches that of the case.
Underneath the watch’s anti-reflective-coated sapphire crystal, an openworked dial is dominated by matte black and mint green color areas, providing a bright and playful variation on an otherwise very technical presentation. Along its outer edge, a black minute ring highlighted at each hour surrounds the face, broken up partially at the 1:30 position with a small seconds counter. Surrounding half of the counter, an...