Not going to be able to write a full post today.  It is the last day of SIAR.  Show has been great so far, hopefully I’ll be able to write a post on it tomorrow. In the meantime, check out this really cool video on the making of the effects in Blade Runner.  A neat look back to the time […]

Yesterday the show here officially opened and the response has already been great.  Thomas Mao, founder of The PuristS is here and posted a brief write-up of his time so far. Yesterday, at a lunch with the MB&F collectors, I was struck with how pure the love for watches is here.  This is a city where you cannot wear a […]

I got the call yesterday that I have been chosen as a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Yes, I’m serious.  The taping is in mid-October.  I guess I should explain how I got here: I was working in New York.  Actually I was there with our last Performance Art piece, the Only Watch we did with Sage Vaughn. […]

My taste in watches is pretty clear: MB&F, URWERK, DeBethune – this high end, creative approach to watchmaking is what really gets me going.  However, there are plenty of nice watches that aren’t shaped like spaceships with six figure price tags.  Recently I posted about a Seiko that I like.  Eventually I’ll post about the vintage Rolex (yes, Rolex) that […]

The ability for internet content to “go viral” is one of the most powerful marketing tools ever.  Indeed it is like a marketing atomic bomb. While it is difficult to achieve a truly viral effect with a watch that appeals to such a small percentage of people, we do see network effects with our releases.  For example, we create our […]

Today I have some free time in Philadelphia and am going to use it wisely.  There are only a few things in the US that I desperately want to see and still have not – Philly happens to have one of them.  Actually, I should say Merion, PA as what I’m referring to is not actually in Philadelphia. In the […]

An unfortunate side effect of my tastes for creative mechanical watches is that they tend to be very expensive.  I thought today I would highlight a piece I love that can be had for less than $1000. It is called the Seiko Discus Burger.  Only available in Japan, I assume the name is a poor translation: discus for the way […]

When people hear what I do, inevitably one of their first questions is how has the economy affected my business.  I think what they want to hear is a percentage change in sales revenue with the expectation that it be considerably down.  On the contrary, MB&F was actually ~20% up or so in 2009 and will be up again this year […]

Last week, Harry Winston celebrated the 10th anniversary of their Opus series.  Created under the leadership of Maximilian Büsser, who later went on to create MB&F, I believe the Opus project was the undertaking most singlehandedly responsible for the state of Contemporary Horology today. Ironically, perhaps the most important piece was the project’s biggest failure: Opus 3.  Created with Vianney Halter, one […]

Today I am shooting a feature for Tiempo de Relojes, one of the premier watch magazines in Mexico and the organizers of the Salón Internacional Alta Relojería which is, IMHO (in my humble opinion), the best watch show in North America. They do a feature where they follow someone in the industry who shows them their favorite spots in whichever […]