Having gotten numerous requests in the past to talk about the history of Marvin,  I have finally decided to post it in a blog.  The Didisheim family (who started Marvin) had such a wide ranging [...]

I was thrilled to learn today that the Dalai Lama actually has a real Twitter account. Apparently there was a fake Dalai running around on Twitter before but now, his account @DalaiLama on http://www.twitter.com/DalaiLama has [...]

Whoever said “God is in the detail” was probably wearing a Marvin. The saying is commonly attributed to Gustave Flaubert (le bon dieu est dans le détail) who lived between 1821 and 1880. Given those [...]

When we started Backstage, the mandate was to “lift the covers on what goes on behind the curtain of horology”. I want to do just that in this post by highlighting recent web statistics from [...]

One of the hottest topics in the industry lately is the announcement that the famous Swiss watch movement manufacturer ETA (now owned by Swatch) was going to stop making “ébauche” movements for third parties. From [...]

When I got my wife a Marvin M111 for Christmas last year, I had no idea I was following a new industry trend. Even stranger is the fact that I added an M004 to my [...]

There are people in life who wear watches exclusively for looks and fashion. Say like celebrities or CEOs for example. Others do so exclusively for need. I can think of policemen, pilots, divers or fire [...]

There was an interesting article by Elizabeth Doerr in Worldtempus recently. It talked about Jaeger-LeCoultre’s new strategies for the American market. Elizabeth writes “Lambert’s brand has spent a great deal of time recently getting to [...]