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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]