KOLLOKIUM
Kollokium was founded in 2020 by Manuel Emch, Barth Nussbaumer and Amr Sindi as a platform rather than a conventional brand. Emch brought executive experience from Jaquet Droz, Louis Erard and Romain Jerome; Nussbaumer is a designer; Sindi is a writer and collector known in independent watch circles. The premise is deliberately open: no house style, no invented heritage, and each project free to contradict the last.
Projects Instead of Collections
Kollokium releases work as numbered Projekts, each treated as a self-contained design exercise with its own material and formal logic. The approach lets the group test ideas — case architecture, dial texture, proportion — without the obligation to build a recognisable signature. Variants within a Projekt can diverge sharply from one another, which is the point rather than an inconsistency.
A Response to a Crowded Segment
The founders have been explicit that Kollokium exists because they found the accessible end of Swiss watchmaking short on design ambition. The platform draws on architecture, music and contemporary design as readily as on horological precedent. Its output is small and Swiss-made, and its influence on the independent conversation has run well ahead of its production numbers.