Tomorrow I leave for Basel.  This is MB&F’s third year in a row exhibiting there and the second in The Dream Factory.  The Dream Factory comprises MB&F, URWERK, Speake-Marin, and Christophe Claret – certainly one of the most exciting areas of the fair! The Dream Factory is in The Palace Hall.  If you will be in Basel, please do stop […]

I started and run MB&F North America.  That means I am responsible for basically anything you see here in the US – from a watch in a showcase to an article in a magazine.  So when I say that the MB&F HM4 is my favorite watch that I have owned, I don’t blame you for thinking I am biased. However, […]

Where Richard Mille helped to subtly usher in a new world of horology, URWERK really founded what I now call Contemporary Horology.  From the advent of the quartz era until the late 1990’s, watchmakers had been focused on the past – slightly changing the same watches over and over again.  The 103 is a true landmark piece.  It represents a […]

If there was one overdone trend in the last 10 years, it was the tourbillon.  Modern production techniques made commonplace what was once the ultimate show of a watchmaker’s skill.  Combined with buyers’ willingness to spend more money on watches, as I discussed yesterday, tourbillons provided the perfect opportunity for companies to sell extraordinarily expensive watches that will eventually hold little historical […]

The Richard Mille RM002 is the watch that got me hooked on “exotic” watches.  In the early 2000’s, like most other people, I had no idea that $100,000+ watches existed.  The idea was simply absurd.  Why would anyone spend that much on a watch?  How could it possibly be worth it? Sure I had seen some watches that I considered […]

To this point in the blog, I have focused a lot on my views on the industry, and working with MB&F.  I figured that would be a unique take, as I really did not want to write a typical watch blog with pictures and info on watches.  But I do have another unique take – I am a watch collector […]

What else could I talk about on Tech Tuesday but the new iPad 2 that is going to be unveiled tomorrow? I don’t expect very many surprises: faster processor, better screen, front camera, maybe even a Thunderbolt port, and hopefully a few updates to iOS.  So the questions are, do these updates really matter, and is there much use for […]