Speake-Marin Velsheda Gothic

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Speake-Marin Velsheda Gothic



The Speake-Marin J-Class is named after the yacht built in the 1930s and still racing today. This year Speake-Marin has revisited The Velsheda, a watch from the collection, and introduces a new creation with a design inspired by the Gothic Style.
Velsheda offers a minimalist display of time using a single polished, blued steel hand. While the single hand extends across the diameter of the dial, its central hub is in the form of the Speake-Marin topping tool logo, as is the central seconds wheel sitting above it. The rotation of the seconds wheel on top of the slower moving hub of the hand creates ever-changing, eye-catching patterns, drawing the eye to the center of Velsheda’s dial.
The Velsheda’s set themselves apart from other watches in the Speake-Marin Collection not only due to the single hand but the central animation between the watches hand and seconds wheel, the addition of enamel and an accentuated Gothic dial.
The dial is dressed with Roman and Arabic numerals. The red 12 has classical connotations and associations with early pocket and wrist watches made in England where on some classic designs all the dial was in black with the exception of the 12. A subtle detail in the design of the dial is the “5”, which has in miniature the word “enamel” painted, but it’s only possible to be viewed with the aid of an eyeglass.
The dial of the Velsheda is in enamel. The sculpted hand is counter balanced by a pointer at one end and an arc at the other; coupled with 5-minute graduations around the peripheral chapter ring they create the overall aesthetic of a compass.
For ease of reading the time, the point of the hand is red. Finally, the Velsheda’s Vaucher caliber is an automatic winding movement. The movement dominates the view through the display-back and provides a technical backdrop for the finely finished rotor. Like the central hub of the hand and the seconds wheel, the rotor is in the shape of the Speake-Marin topping tool logo, a motif permeating the whole timepiece.

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