Just because I’m not with MB&F anymore, doesn’t mean I’m not excited about their pieces.  The Razzle Dazzle and Double Trouble are awesome versions of HM4 mocked up like WWII era bombers.  Limited to 8 pieces each, they feature rivets, aged dials, a strap cut from 100 year old ammo bags, and beautiful hand painted miniature pinups.  Unfortunately the release was missed a bit here in the US because it was done on Thanksgiving.  Here are some videos I took of these two pieces.  Also a picture of my HM4 with the strap.  The strap is my favorite part!

Today, Google announced business pages for Google+.  For those of you who haven’t played around with it, G+ is Google’s attempt to socially connect the web.  It has a lot of cool features, but has not fully gained traction yet.

I believe Google is going to succeed with Google+.  They have so many resources and they are completely dedicated to this project.  They know that social signals are an important missing piece of their system.

Today I’ve started the TickTocking Google+ page.  Click the link and add it to your circles quickly.  It will allow us to do all sorts of cool things, the neatest of which is multi-person video hang-outs.  I’ll try to start the first official TickTocking hangout next week, so make sure you get on the page ASAP.

First of all, thank you all for being regular readers of my blog this year.  As I have said before, it has been a really fun project.

I want to apologize that I have not had many posts lately.  This is due to two factors.  One, the watch world slows down considerably in this last couple months.  Obviously retail sales are important, but there isn’t much interesting to talk about from the brands side as everyone is getting ready for their new products and campaigns in January.

And second, my wife is due to have the baby any day now.  I am spending hours every day learning how to breath, shopping for breast pumps, and putting together tiny furniture.  While I am now a wizard with an allen wrench, I don’t think it makes for very interesting blog posts.

So bear with me for a while.  I’ll throw stuff up when I come across things of interest.

All the best,
Steve

Dropping in to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

I have family in town and I’m going to try to pry myself away from my computer as much as I can.  So I will probably not be posting again this week.  Maybe I’ll try to throw up some fun links on Thursday in case you get bored of your family

Here’s an interesting piece on how your Thanksgiving turkey gets made (WARNING: do not read if you want to enjoy your turkey tomorrow)

My Unbranding and Product Placement post was a real fan favorite, so I had to smile when this morning, TMZ reports that the watch that sparked the fight between Charlie Sheen and his “companion” for the night was a Patek 5970.

Aside from the fact that Charlie has better taste in watches than most other things in his life, what do we learn from this?  Is it positive, negative, or neutral for Patek?  To me, this one feels like a case of “any publicity is good publicity”.  As big of an a-hole as Mr. Sheen obviously is, I can’t help but think his choice of a Patek still contributes positively to the brand.

Any thoughts?

“You can’t please all of the people all of the time”

On Tuesday, we released a teaser image of our newest “Performance Art” piece, The JWLRYMACHINE, made in collaboration with Boucheron.

The official release date is Oct 5.  The teaser is a fun way for us to let the most interested MB&F fans have some fun and guess what may be coming.

I must say that I was a bit surprised to see people complaining about it on PuristSPro.  We obviously respect the opinions of the members there, so Max wrote a nice response.

I have to say, I completely agree with Max.  I got super excited when I saw this teaser from URWERK a few days previously.  As a real fan of the brand, it was great to get a little extra info and let my mind run before seeing the piece in January.

Oh well, different strokes for different folks.  I just can’t quite see what there is to complain about.  We are having lots of fun and very proud of our new piece.  It is the fourth new release this year (HM2-SV, Frog, HM4).  Perhaps we make it look easy, but I can assure you that it takes A LOT of work and passion for what we are doing.  I’m glad that those who share our passion have enjoyed all of the new pieces, and hope they too have fun with these early glimpses.

Hope you all are having a great weekend. Just to let you know, I installed Disqus today, a new comment system that will hopefully make it easier to have real-time discussions on here.

Unfortunately it wiped out all the comments from last week. Thank you very much to those of you who commented. I will try not to erase them again!