First of all, thank you all for being regular readers of my blog this year.  As I have said before, it has been a really fun project. I want to apologize that I have not had many posts lately.  This is due to two factors.  One, the watch world slows down considerably in this last couple months.  Obviously retail sales […]

A lot of people really enjoyed the video I posted explaining how a mechanical watch works. Here is a great video on how a quartz watch works.

Max and I are featured in the latest issue of Worth Magazine.  The article is on the importance and difficulty of successful partnerships, a PDF can be found here: Worth Magazine This topic seems particularly relevant to MB&F and to my view of business.  Of course, the &F are the Friends.  The entire company was structured around the importance of […]

Nothing watch related here, just a fantastic interview that I watched last night.  While I don’t always agree with Christopher Hitchens, he is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and brilliant thinkers/writers/speakers of our time.  To be able to hear from someone like that as they stare death in the face is particularly powerful and, I think, important. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDYbNIHyN0&feature=player_embedded […]

Quick post today, but I believe we are witnessing an important event. Anyone paying attention to the tech scene knows that flash sales and daily deals sites are super hot.  Groupon is reportedly selling to Google for 6 BILLION dollars soon.  I wrote about the phenomenon here. Well today, our friend Ben Clymer of Hodinkee has partnered with Gilt to […]

This is a copy of a post that I made yesterday on PuristSPro. On Monday, we had the pleasure of announcing The Chocolate Frog, a special edition of 10 watches we are making to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of ThePuristS and PuristSPro. This collaboration is of particular significance for me and is something I have been working towards since the […]

Last week the New York Times featured an article on how we have used our retail strategy to keep us in demand. Traditionally, business models are optimized for profits.  But that does not have to be the case.  But MB&F is different.  Max has chosen to optimize for creativity and quality of life.  When we make decisions, instead of focusing […]

Dropping in to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! I have family in town and I’m going to try to pry myself away from my computer as much as I can.  So I will probably not be posting again this week.  Maybe I’ll try to throw up some fun links on Thursday in case you get bored of your family 😉 […]

I mentioned it in my post on Friday, but here is the official word from Max.  This was the newsletter sent out today.  Again, if you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, send me an email through the “Contact” button above and I will sign you up.

I am happy to report that both of my picks ended up being correct.  Congratulations to Van Cleef for Best Ladies’ Watch and of course, we took home the Design and Concept Watch prize for our HM4 Thunderbolt.  I know Max and the whole team are very excited, and they truly earned it.  All of the other winners were very […]