kollokium Projekt 02 Variant B: Depth, Drama and a Cause
Key Highlights
- First publicly available edition of kollokium’s Projekt 02 after the Friends, Family, Fools & Flippers run.
- Topographical dial built from 67 plates across 9 layers, graduating from light grey to near-black.
- Each plate hand-painted with Super-LumiNova to form a continuous vertical light-to-dark gradient.
- Limited to 299 pieces, plus a prototype consigned to Marteau & Co.’s “The Echo” auction in support of the MIH.
- Staged online access with deliveries from late April to late May 2026.
Across Nine Layers of Light and Shadow
Projekt 02 Variant B is the first public outing of kollokium’s second model and develops the brand’s topographical concept in a darker, more architectural direction, following the closed Friends, Family, Fools & Flippers release from September 2025.
The dial is conceived as relief rather than print: nine vertical levels formed by sixty-seven individual plates, each with its own pegs and fixed position, translating a two-dimensional image into stepped volumes so depth and shadow define how the watch reads.
Variant B revives the colour scheme of Projekt 01 Variant E and discreetly echoes an emblematic 1995 sneaker palette, applying it to a new landscape of stacked plates. The gradient runs vertically from the highest plateaus to the lowest crevasse, staying calm at a glance while revealing detail up close.
Like a hypsometric map, every level is distinguished to stress the relief: twelve hour markers sit on the highest plateaus in light grey, and each subsequent layer darkens until the base reaches near-black, reinforcing the sense of altitude and descent across all sixty-seven plates.
The Pursuit of a Perfect Luminescent Gradient
Behind the monochrome palette is a demanding Super-LumiNova process: every plate is hand-painted with lacquer infused with luminous pigment, which first requires close control over grain size, opacity and consistency before colour is tuned.
For Variant B, kollokium set out to create a gradient that shifts from light to dark while keeping a consistent hue and uniform glow in low light, darkening the pigment without fragmenting the luminous field so the dial reads as a single landscape rather than a patchwork of tones when charged.
Limited edition, MIH support and access
Projekt 02 Variant B is limited to 299 pieces, available online and through kollokium’s offline retail network, while a prototype has been consigned to Marteau & Co.’s second online auction, “The Echo”, with all proceeds benefiting the Musée International d’Horlogerie (MIH) in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
The three kollokium founders have close ties to La Chaux-de-Fonds, and their backing of the MIH reflects both personal history and professional respect; recognised as a major independent horological museum, it is undergoing renovation ahead of a planned Spring 2026 reopening, and the Projekt 02 prototype underscores the museum’s role in preserving and transmitting watchmaking know-how.
kollokium will first offer Projekt 02 Variant B to its subscribers: private access opens on Friday, March 13 at 14:00 CET and subscribers receive a password twenty-four hours earlier, followed by the public online sale on Monday, March 16 at 14:00 CET, with deliveries planned from the end of April 2026 through to the end of May 2026 and the prototype numbered 01 listed on Marteau & Co.’s website with bidding from March 12 until March 19.
Why it matters
Projekt 02 Variant B shows how a young independent can turn a dial into an architectural object while also engaging with Swiss watchmaking culture through support of the MIH. For GCC collectors who value design intent, limited production and institutional patronage, it combines sculptural aesthetics with a clearly framed contribution to horology’s heritage.
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