As I mentioned yesterday, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie will take place tonight in Geneva.  Today I’ll tackle what is almost always the most interesting category, Best Design and Concept Watch.  Again, go here for all of the nominees. Ok, obviously I am biased.  First of all, MB&F has two watches nominated in the category: HM3 Frog, and HM4 Thunderbolt.  For […]

Thursday, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie will take place in Geneva.  The Oscars of watchmaking, every year there are some very deserving winners and some surprises.  I thought I’d give my picks for the two most interesting categories as I see them: Ladies and Concept.  As a disclaimer, I have not seen all of the Official Selections in person, so I […]

This Tech Tuesday, I thought I would offer a little update on the state of TickTocking.  I have to say, this project has exceeded my wildest expectations.  I’m sure you have noticed that I have not been able to keep with my goal of blogging every day.  Some days I just don’t have much to say and I don’t want […]

Over the weekend, a very interesting discussion broke out on The Watch Lounge.  I encourage everyone to read the post and the comments there, they are from some of the biggest players in the watch media.  I wrote a comment, but wanted to expand a bit here. There are a few issues at play.  In my comment, I address the […]

When I came on board with Max, clearly we needed to open a few more retailers.  The challenge was that we had no connections at most of the stores.  Luckily, I have no shame whatsoever in cold calling or showing up somewhere unannounced.  I would never pressure anyone to become a dealer, either they get it or they don’t, but […]

Last year I received an invitation from Lussori to join them in their store during the Pebble Beach car shows.  Generally I turn down offers to appear at stores other than our Authorized Dealers, but this was too good an opportunity to miss.  Their store was on the main street in Carmel – an obvious destination for the biggest gathering […]

Rewind back to September 2008.  Max and I had just decided to start MB&F North America.  I knew business and I knew watches, but I had zero experience with the watch business. The organizer of SIAR, the great watch show in Mexico City, had invited Max to visit the Salon.  It was an invitation that Max was going to decline […]

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 […]