I first met Max Maertens at Dubai Watch Week last year. The young designer already has a storied career under his belt, working on projects with brands like Chopard, Vacheron Constantin, Cartier, a...

Christiaan van der Klaauw (founded in 1974 in the Netherlands) has dedicated itself almost exclusively to astronomical complications, creating wristwatches that display celestial phenomena with rem...

In this video of the day, we come back to the inception of the M.A.D. watches, how and why it all started for the team of MB&F and how this series of watches has become a perfect example of a commu...

Few innovations in automobile engines have been as impactful as the turbocharger, first brought to production cars in the 1960s and popularized in the United States largely thanks to the iconic tur...

A watch brand we don't always cover on Hodinkee is growing sales and volumes with its polarizing products and unique take on horology. Plus, we need your business-related questions for next week's ...

Philippine microbrand Makina returns with the Makina Cassiel II. This second iteration looks nothing like the original Cassiel. However, it looks much more like a Makina now, and that’s a good thin...

MB&F opens a new chapter in its Horological Machines collection with HM12 The Guardian, a project that combines a highly complex wristwatch with a large mechanical robot developed in collaboration ...

I had already seen the slides from the HM12 marketing presentation on a previous visit to Geneva; however, the first thing that struck me when Max Maertens, Creative Designer for Watches & Clocks a...

Childhood imagination and science fiction to inspire high-end watchmaking? Why not, and MB&F is proof that it can be a successful combination. Since the launch of HM1 in 2007, Maximilian Büsser’s c...

Childhood imagination and science fiction to inspire high-end watchmaking? Why not, and MB&F is proof that it can be a successful combination. Since the launch of HM1 in 2007, Maximilian Büsser’s c...