Kollokium - Projekt 02 Variant C
For its third act, Kollokium’s boundary-pushing Projekt 02 steps out of the shadows and into saturated sunlight.
The Projekt 02 Variant C reimagines the brand’s signature topographical dial in a refreshing gradient of turquoise blue tones—an unmistakable summer statement that transforms the same 67-plate architecture into an entirely new wrist-bound panorama.
Limited to 299 pieces, Variant C arrives as the northern hemisphere heats up, bringing chromatic relief to the sizzling months ahead. Where the inaugural FFF&F edition explored warm metallic depths and Variant B introduced the world to the vertical fumé dial, Variant C goes fully aquatic. The dial’s nine stacked layers—built from sixty-seven individually crafted plates—shift from bright, cool white at the highest peaks to deep turquoise in the valleys, evoking scattered island archipelagos or glaciers tucked beneath mountain summits.
Hypsometry in Motion
The concept draws from hypsometric mapping, dramatizing the dial’s three-dimensional volume through tonal elevation. The twelve hour markers sit atop the brightest white lacquer, with each successive layer hand-painted in progressively deeper blues. Achieving this seamless luminescent gradient required two years of testing to balance grain size, opacity, and consistent hue across every plate.
The result is a dial that shifts with the light by day and glows by night, thanks to lacquer infused with Super-LumiNova. As with previous variants, a careful compromise was struck between perfect color transition and solid lume performance—expect a subtle, atmospheric glow rather than torch-like intensity, particularly from the Lichtblock elements on the hour and minute hands.
Brutalist Artisanship
Behind the industrial aesthetic lies painstaking manual labor. Each of the sixty-seven dial plates is individually hand-painted, then vertically stacked and pegged one atop another—a process requiring roughly eight hours per dial. The plates remain fragile; bending during assembly means starting from scratch. It is, by the brand’s own admission, a brutalist approach to artisanship. The rejection rate, while improved from a harrowing 80% on the first edition to a still-demanding 50%, speaks to the raw, uncompromising nature of the craft.
Housed in a case that is more sapphire crystal than metal, Variant C invites the wearer to truly take in the view. Bright rhodium-plated and matte-finished plates catch and contrast light against an azure backdrop that never quite settles on a single shade of blue. Nothing about this watch is accidental—it is deliberate, architectural, and unapologetically contemporary.
Technical Specification
Case
Construction: Monobloc steel case topped by a sapphire glass box
Diameter: 39.5 mm
Height: 5.90 mm without sapphire crystal; 12.40 mm with sapphire crystal
Crown: Valve-shaped
Water Resistance: 5 ATM
Dial
Design: Topographical dial with 67 individual dial plates
Finish: Rhodium finish with sandblasted edges
Lacquer: Vertical gradient in 9 tones from white to turquoise blue, infused with blue-emission Super-LumiNova
Hour & Minute Hands: Turquoise blue with applied Lichtblock™ elements in white, blue-emission Super-LumiNova
Seconds Hand: White with bent triangle counterweight
Movement
Calibre: La Joux-Perret G101 automatic
Diameter: 26 mm
Height: 4.45 mm
Frequency: 4 Hz / 28,800 vph
Jewels: 24
Rotor: Uni-directional unsigned winding rotor
Power Reserve: Approximately 68 hours
Strap / Bracelet
Material: Turquoise blue elastic textile single-piece strap
Buckle: "Hook" buckle in die-cast steel
Limited Edition: 299 pieces
Price: HKD $36,666