Independents

Pictures by Anthony Tsai (except last 2 pics) & text by long time PuristS Art Dakessian. - Anthony ==================================== The Peter Speake-Marin gathering in Los Angeles was held at the Westside restaurant Chez Mimi last Friday. The event st...  

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Here are some more pictures taken throughout the lovely evening. Cheers, Anthony...  

engraved dials?

That dragon dial has so much depth to it and took 100 hours to engrave it. Amazing! - Anthony

to post even the blurry ones Is it Kees Engelbarts who did the dials?...  

Btw, click on the picture if u want to see a larger sized pic Cheers, Anthony...  

Hi, Alex, It is a stunning piece, but already bought by a collector (hopefully we'll see it at future PuristS' events! Kees also did the Phoenix piece (I don't remember the name) and if I remember correctly, that piece uses the Maki-e process, and is stil...  

Kees did the "Fighting Time" dial from Peter's original design. Kees and Peter are friends, whom collaborated on this unique piece. The back of the watch has the name and Speake-Marin name with serial number all hand engraved by Kees, there is no machine ... 

Here are the pics......  

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Always an enjoyable group to get together with. Thanks to all those involved. Anthony, your pics came out fantastic given the lack of lighting there!

for the report. The original report was gonng be much longer but then evils of technology got in the way. After Art spend 3+ hrs typing up the report and clicked on "send" to email it to me, he got some type of time-out error so he lost everything :( Spen...