Under Mr. Piëch's watch, VW acquired the Bentley, Bugatti and Lamborghini brands in a single year.
My Panerai watch, also acquired before the turn of the century, has been worn every day since, except for two brief periods when I've sent it to be serviced.
NACUE has grown from an organisation of 3 to almost 40 staff on Hushpreet's watch, has acquired significant government finance and now runs 86 university enterprises, supporting 40,000 entrepreneurial students.
But a sense of commanding authority comes with experience, so it will be a pleasure to watch her acquire that.
For those of us who adored a work in its youth, which alternative is grimmer: never to see it again or to watch it acquire the lines of age and then become one of the dance dead or, worse, undead?
Included in the exhibit are free-morphing stations, where visitors snap photographs, watch themselves acquire early-human features, and e-mail them home.
This is, however, no ordinary binge-watching-acquired stiff neck, because this guy's waddle begins to expand, snaking away from his body in a freakishly inexplicable, winding growth.
It then acquired watch companies, including Movado and Concord, to manufacture its own and later developed watches for well-known designer clothing brands like Hugo Boss.
He had never acted in his life, but both Mr. Lazenby and his strategically acquired watch got the part.
However, watching Marissa Mayer acquire all these startups that are on their last lifeline or just keeping their head above water is suspect.
