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 […]

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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, […]

For this Tech Tuesday, I wanted to write on perhaps the new hottest web 2.0 trend: daily deal sites. By now there are many of them and they all have certain niches, but the basic idea is the same.  Every day a new product or service is offered at a heavily discounted price in a limited quantity and for a […]

Well today is the day of my Millionaire taping so I’m not going to be able to do a full post.  Instead, here’s a link to the Hourtime podcast I recorded the other day with Ariel from ablogtoread and John Biggs of CrunchGear. http://hourtimeshow.com/post/1302174730/episode-40-an-interview-with-stephen-hallock Enjoy and wish me luck!  I won’t be able to report on how it goes until […]

Hope you all had a great weekend.  It’s Columbus day here in the US, so rather than write a full post I thought I would share this terrific article by Jason Heaton on www.askmen.com.  If Jason’s name sounds familiar it is because he also writes for our friends at Hodinkee and Gear Patrol. In the article, Jason takes on what […]

We do very little advertising.  Mostly when you see us it is editorial coverage.  Occasionally you will see an ad that is done in cooperation with a retailer.  And every now and then, we will take out an ad on our own. Of course with print media, the difficulty is that you cannot track the efficacy of an ad.  The only […]

I had my blog post all planned out today.  It was going to be a defense of the JWLRY MACHINE, our collaboration with Boucheron.  When we were ripped to pieces on the watch websites and forums for creating a piece of jewelry and accused of jumping the shark, I was going to plead our case. I would explain how the […]

Tomorrow we will launch the JWLRYMACHINE, our fourth and final launch of the year.  You may have seen the teaser. This year has been incredible for us.  As I said, four new product launches, all very limited, very successful pieces.  I thought we’d take a quick look back and look at what each piece says about MB&F in addition to […]

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 […]