Today on Tech Tuesday, let’s look at a bold move from Google, one of my favorite companies in the world. It is easy to take Google for granted.  Their search engine has become ubiquitous, the stark homepage iconic, and their algorithms better and better behind the scenes.  It is almost unthinkable that a company whose products are almost all free […]

One of the biggest challenges I have in my job is that I almost never have watches to show anyone!  MB&F has one extra collection of watches to show to press and at events, but the collection lives in Geneva.  I think we do a pretty good job of getting people interested in our pieces, but since we have only […]

With labor day over, it’s time for many people to get back to work and back to school.  I put my white pants in storage and am ready for an amazing finish to the year. This week on TickTocking, we vacillated between product and industry. On Monday, I put up some fun links for labor day including a documentary on […]

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 […]

For those of you who like to read on your mobile devices, I have created a mobile version of the site. You will automatically go to it if you visit the site from a mobile browser. If you prefer the full version, it is easy to switch back at the bottom. Let me know if you like it, dislike it, […]

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 […]

This week, Kanye West had a much publicized outburst on Twitter (@KanyeWest).  Among his tweets was this one which I found particularly interesting: These tweets have no manager, no publicist , no grammar checking… this is raw While I’m not sure that the world needs Kanye West to be any more raw, his point is as raw as can be. […]

Today is Labor Day here in the US, so rather than a new post I thought I’d share some of the best things I have read/watched in the past week.  Enjoy! Harry Winston Celebrates 10 Years of Opus Revolution Online Stunning Video of Worldwide Air Traffic over 24 Hours MB&F Parallel World The Internet is a Black Hole John Frankel […]

Last night I had the pleasure of eating dinner at Ludobites 5.0 for the second time.  Ludobites is a pop-up restaurant created by Ludovic Lefebvre.  Perhaps you read the amazing piece recently in the NY Times on it? Basically, Ludo is an extremely talented, well-pedigreed chef.  Originally from Burgundy, he has worked the kitchens of some of the most influential French […]