Well, it’s Tech Tuesday during Retailer Week, so what else could we talk about but selling online? Clearly MB&F is focused on leveraging the internet as much as possible.  Without the internet, we would never have gotten to where we are.  It is the single biggest factor that allows little guys like us with no money to compete with big […]

I thought I would take this week to profile my four North American MB&F Retailers: who they are, why we chose them, etc.  I’ll throw in a Tech Tuesday post tomorrow as well. At MB&F, our retailers are our “Friends” as well.  We have the luxury of only working with stores that we enjoy working with and respect.  We deliberately […]

Not watch related at all, but it’s Friday!  This is an amazing article by Mick Jagger in response to the book the Keith Richards just wrote.  Enjoy! One great quote among many: In our organization, inside this rather unusual floating circus we call home, I am forced into the role of martinet, the one who gets blamed for silly arbitrary […]

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Anyone familiar with watches has been exposed to the “in-house” movement…movement.  We have been led to believe that the only watches that really matter are ones in which every part is proprietary.  I think this is a big mistake, but I understand how we got here. “In-house” is being used as a proxy for valuable.  With so many companies, models, […]

Business Insider has a fantastic interview with Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired. While the entire thing is worth watching, I especially like the story of how he came to his job.  He was a physicist who reluctantly got into the magazine world with scientific journals.  He was eventually offered the job to head this new tech magazine, […]