English watchmaker Peter Speake 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.? So far, he?s deconstructed around 100 watches on the website, including a Simplicity from Philippe Dufour, an original Tourbillon pocketwatch from Breguet, an Octo Roma Tourbillon Sapphire from Bulgari, plus examples of watches ranging from Grand Seiko to Ferdinand Berthoud. I sat down with him to talk about his passion and his project.
Many content platforms have started to sell watches; you went the other way. What made you launch The Naked Watchmaker"
The goal of the site is to educate rather than sell, the roots stem back over 25 years to when I would restore collectable watches and photograph them to publish articles in various magazines to show people what conventionally they would never see. I felt driven even then to show the hidden side of watchmaking, the parts only watchmakers get to see. Although the idea goes back quite a time, it was Daniela who gave rise to this idea of resurrecting it and developing it into a modern platform.

Where do you get the watches"
We work with the companies that make them. This allows ...