On the Verb “To Develop”
A note on language, affiliation, and the prestige economy of watchmaking.
Among the more elegantly deployed sentences in the press release for the new Hautlence Kubera Series 1, one stands out for the patient labour it performs on the reader’s behalf. “The jumping hours and peripheral minutes module,” the brand explains, “developed by Agenhor in collaboration with HAUTLENCE, completes this mechanical architecture and turns th…
