• Brand Mania - Challenger Brand

    A Rocket to Watch

    MB&F is a company that has no dearth of creative imagination and no lack of technology that transforms this creativity into reality. The latest collaboration between L’Epée 1839 and MB&F brings us a desk clock which is maybe every child’s fantasy. Destination Moon an eight-day table top clock. It’s rocket shape design which cleverly displays hours and minutes on large stainless steel discs with stamped numerals. The horizontal plates perforated to look like Meccano components. This rocket of time has an open movement and is structured vertically. Complete with your own personal astronaut “Neil” who can be  magnetically attached to any…

  • Travel Tales

    When you visit Switzerland for the first time (first part in the series)

    I was more excited than my 7-year-old son, it was my first visit to a destination I had only dreamt about. I attribute all my desires and dreams to Yash Chopra for shooting his movies in the most exotic locales. I grew up on images of snow mountains with beautiful Indian actresses clad in flimsy chiffon sarees braving the cold. I was not romantic enough to try that though. When the day arrived I was jittery and jumping at everything (remember have always been like that before a school picnic). So when I finally reached my destination I was totally…