This Watch Dial Was Impossible To Make - Until Now!

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Today I have the pleasure to talk to Manuel Emch, Amr Sindi and Barth Nussbaumer. The founders behind the exciting new watch brand called Kollokium. We talked about the design process, manufacturing hurdles as well as the extremely positive response from the watch collector community.
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[@SwissWatchGang]

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[@alextryan]

This may be the most charming timepiece available today, and a massive breath of fresh air. Almost every new model these days looks like a middle-aged man driving to work, in traffic, with the light in his eyes completely extinguished. Many thanks to the three of you for giving us something that reawakens imagination.

[@SwissWatchGang]

Glad you like it!

[@FullJikama]

Nearly impossible to make? I don’t buy that, good try.

[@hussam123nimer]

well the dial 460+ parts seem quite an impossibility that was made possible through dedicated engineering

[@JamesIdentity]

Try hand setting 400 unalike tiny pieces on a plate in a way that aligns with the technical drawing doesn‘t damage the ones you already set before. Then tell me when you‘re done.

[@FullJikama]

@@JamesIdentity I don’t buy it, they are lying.

[@SwissWatchGang]

@@FullJikama hahahah #troll xD

[@FullJikama]

@@SwissWatchGang i dont buy this comment either....xD

[@delugs.official]

Bravo!!! Absolutely love the dial and really enjoy how easy it is to wear the watch for most occasions

[@rickjason215]

It is nice to see something new. Unfortunately it was sold out, before I could order one.

[@N3VURMYND]

Imo you were saved. Stop giving these garbage micro brands your money and save up for something better.

[@lBOSS6]

@@N3VURMYND My opinion is that this your comment is a very stupid 😃🍀bye

[@vinzent_visuals504]

@@N3VURMYND Clown

[@N3VURMYND]

@@vinzent_visuals504 It hurts you because you missed out on paying a high end price for a garbage watch. 🤣 You're the clown, brother.

[@vinzent_visuals504]

@@N3VURMYND Nah Never wanted to buy them, but your opinion on microbrands is absolutly dumb and just tells me you know nothing about watches

[@williamyamm8803]

I am not a watch guy, but I like the originality of this one. Great design. Greetings from France

[@user-cg7tw5yc9n]

Thanks for bringing this brand forward .. it's an amazing timepiece that I'd like to own

[@TheBrokenEclipse]

This was really great episode! I loved the insights these guys were willing to share. I really hope they release the edition "C" of it as the two previous editions have already sold out... Or that we hear more of the next project!

[@JASONKENTJANA]

“we want to have affordable price where people don’t need a second thought “. also them: its $3000

[@malaise92]

New to collector watches?

[@JASONKENTJANA]

@@malaise92 not exactly “without second thought” is it? That statement is what’s contradictory

[@malaise92]

@@JASONKENTJANA I mean, there’s a lot of less visually interesting watches selling for 10k+. Not to mention people willing to spend 30k, 50k, and more on an interesting watch for their collection. 3000 is little money for someone spending good money on a collectors watch. Besides, they never said it was a cheap watch, and I wouldn’t expect it after looking at that dial.

[@JASONKENTJANA]

@@malaise92 I'm well aware with higher priced watches. The nominal price wouldn't be a problem on its own. The problem came when he said "affordable" and "without second thought". Do you buy a $1500 laptop with a second thought? most likely yes. But the laptop manufacturer never said "anyone can buy this without second thought" Even Seiko at much lower price point never say something like that.

[@malaise92]

@@JASONKENTJANA I just don’t see the point in looking that far into it… He’s privileged, watch collectors are privileged too. If 3000 is not a lot for them, what are we going to do about it? Do you think they’re trying to pull off some type of scam?

[@TheGrenadier97]

That's extremely unique. Very refreshing to see something so new.

[@effektagency5144]

Wonderful interview, it was such a pleasure having them in our studio! All the best with the project 🔥

[@danigomb]

thinking about dial design, found this great idea/execution. bravo!

[@carmenchinita8093]

Absolutely amazing . I love the dial and all the details . And the people involved in this project.. watch. . Waiting to see if is a variant C. Much expected.

[@charlesbentley3784]

Very glad I was able to get a “B”. Really love this watch. Wears fantastic.

[@SwissWatchGang]

Lets go!

[@JackoWillMakeLives-loveu]

Awesome piece but made of unobtainium like most others

[@UnseenHero]

Wow beautiful. Had no idea this even existed or was in the works.

[@TheWatchAdmirer]

Awesome 👍 Did you get one for your Collection?

[@SoCalWatchReviews]

I absolutely love these ❤

[@reezevlog]

this is so so fresh….different n very unique…. love it….❤

[@lifesnuggets5761]

This was so fun to watch! Super nice design albeit a little thick for me. Small red flag though is when the designer is at the table and no one knows lug to lug measurement? As an engineer after designing a part myself, especially if it’s passion project, I remember those measurements.. sus? Maybe nothing. Love the loom on that thing

[@davidhunternyc1]

Reminds of Ming with a twist.

[@SwissWatchGang]

Yea, a BIG twist :D

[@thomaskunz3726]

Wow that one looks fantastic in the night!

[@MarcRinderknecht]

such a great and unique design - I‘m a fool that I didn‘t order one. hoping for series C now…

[@scottstills7971]

Awesome piece. Would love to have one

[@avmelidor]

Intrigued. Congratulations and continued success to them

[@frc1255]

Really love and appreciate this watch, I signed up for the notification on the project 1, but wasn’t in the position to buy one. I appreciate the goal of making an affordable watch, but what’s the point if they are unavailable? Amazing affordable watch, you can’t buy it 🤷‍♂️

[@JWnFlorida]

Beautiful

[@Robert35GTR]

Was lucky and managed to secure one , cant wait for this to arrive😊

[@SwissWatchGang]

Congrats!

[@Eric_Nielsen]

I had one on my wrist yesterday and it fit AMAZINGLY well. On video the dial is the star, in person it's the case.

[@SwissWatchGang]

Yea, well said. The fit is awesome.

[@Alexander-zs5rj]

Sehr schöne anzuschauen des Zifferblatt, tolle Idee. Ich hoffe es folgen noch mehr Projekte 👏👏👏👍

[@AbdulRWatches]

Pretty cool watch 👍🏽👍🏽

[@Ahfuric]

damn this is actually really cool. Completly different from what Ive seen before

[@SwissWatchGang]

Well, that´s my job, to show you new stuff. :)

[@suomi35]

I just saw this and would have bought one right now if they had any left

[@recaanharb]

I truly lusted after this Kollokium drop, and I understand Lume was a very big feature that they wanted to nail down, but that lack of pop of color with the seconds hand ruins the overall design for me. I really hope they knock it out of the park with the Variant C. Great video though!

[@JRudd]

Very impressive design.

[@lomadonkey]

I often wondered if it is possible to create a futuristic mechanical watch, or if we will be for ever stuck with 50s/60s dive watches. Fortunately a future is possible, proven by Projekt 01 - Variant "B" - great watch guys!

[@pkumartb]

Wow… exceptional design. Really sad that everything sold out. Project A is the one I want.

[@AG-en5y]

love how u always nring on unqiue brands instead of the same old 5 best rolex for this summer type of videos. please keep it up

[@SwissWatchGang]

Comments like this keep me going, more to come!

[@AG-en5y]

@@SwissWatchGang 😘😘😘much love from Canada Vancouver

[@bruceleroy8063]

Oh that is awesome 👌

[@oratn]

I have a great idea for the context of the watches, Wow effect and new level. I'd like to discuss it with such icon as Manuel Emch.

[@janezpungartnik3149]

Sodelovc mi je rekui da je tip iz SWG slovenc.. Je to res? Gledam že neki časa pa mi niti na pamet ni pršl.. Lovely video! Loved the banter in this. What a watch!

[@SwissWatchGang]

Sodelovc ma prou. Hvala ti 👍🏻😁

[@jeremymecham6150]

Accessible, yet not accessible. That’s too bad. Brilliantly designed.

[@ArturMaiaCarvalho]

So smart! And beautiful! simply amazing ❤ shame is sold out

[@SwissWatchGang]

Glad you like it, more coming :)

[@Abdulwahed01]

I love it 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@kart182]

That’s gorgeous

[@KevinRibelMusic]

Not my jam but beautiful nonetheless! I wish them all the success!

[@jarnbjorn4522]

wow nice watch, really unique. unfortunately sold out.

[@SwissWatchGang]

More to come don't worry.

[@kingrutse3278]

I have to have one how much the fact the dial has no name sold me ..

[@Timepieceguy]

I really want one.

[@stefanbersebach1201]

Welch eine wunderschöne Uhr! Schade, dass die Uhr bereits ausverkauft ist.

[@SwissWatchGang]

Da kommen noch mehrere, keine sorge :)

[@kingrutse3278]

How is it produced fiber optic wire ?

[@iggysfriend4431]

Very nice.

[@lucianacarvalho4095]

Very CooL

[@reesebroekhoven3962]

Wait is the bald dude the guy thay was on your show few years ago high out of his skull? If it is then he's not so high this time lol. Also great looking watch well done gentlemen

[@SwissWatchGang]

hahaha yea

[@reesebroekhoven3962]

@SwissWatchGang I thought so lol. Great content as always brother, thank you for doing the watch world this favor, for showing us beautiful high end watches. Not just sitting there milking the name rolex for everything you can like 99% of watch channels out there. You truly are that 1% who is actually a watch connoisseur

[@SwissWatchGang]

@@reesebroekhoven3962 Thanks! Well, I am bored as well with seeing "Rolex" on my KZbin homepage every sigle day in thousands of different contexts so I try to freshne things up. Not easy of course, because most brands have no SEO supporting them especially on KZbin but the people who do watch, really love watches and are happy to discover something new like you say. And I also enjoy it more at the end.

[@BorisPjanic]

Cool

[@allanmunken]

Allways a Treat to Look what You found out😊

[@SwissWatchGang]

Thanks!

[@armandblake]

Designer looks exactly like I would imagine someone that designed this watch

[@SwissWatchGang]

haha yea

[@abdurrahmanal-siddiq7471]

@swisswatchgang what watch is the presenter wearing?

[@SwissWatchGang]

Ulysse Nardin Freak X Carbonium if you’re talking about me (Marko).

[@zillsburyy1]

its only fun when its dark out

[@incription]

I thought the pins would move up and down

[@vktravellog1242]

Wow 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@jotr.9786]

"basically a swiss made watch" 😂

[@baraki808]

It's $3,000USD "affordable" for watch collectors I can see that. But for regular people that's a lot.

[@SwissWatchGang]

It absolutely is, and since I show crazy expensive watches all the time, 3000 seemed affordable in the sense of the channel. Hope you understand.

[@akiblue]

"We wanted a raw cast stainless steel because no one is doing that" Translation: "We wanted a raw cast stainless steel because we don't know how to polish or brush stainless steel but we still want to charge people three thousand dollars"

[@SwissWatchGang]

Sure, if you google these 3 guys, polishing a case isn't really anything they can't find.

[@BorisBidjanSaberi11]

So damn fun

[@m4rvinmartian]

*What part was impossible?*

[@SwissWatchGang]

The dial, clearly. Or show me another one.

[@m4rvinmartian]

​@@SwissWatchGang *I mean... I've been a machinist for 40 years... I don't see anything impossible here.* Is this one of those cases where you used a word improperly? Do you know what impossible means? It means, NOT. *_I love bets... Cabot Guns bet me 25 grand I couldn't reproduce his Damascus Pistol. Now I have a Damascus Pistol, AND 25 grand._* Do I need a watch with a bunch of weird metal dowels in it? Maybe... *Want to make a 50 grand bet?* It would be a "Titan(ic)" mistake.

[@m4rvinmartian]

@@SwissWatchGang *Do we have a bet? I'm about to plunk down 1MM on a shop, making this watch in an hour or two would be an awesome kickoff video... and then you buying us a new machine with the bet.* And then I can make the watch again, with the new machine that I bought from the bet. An inception watch!

[@uhrologe2596]

Already sold out 😢

[@mixman2007m]

2600€? No, thanks.

[@MrDownRater]

This is what we want!

[@nakoahumphrey7216]

Wish it wasn’t sold out.

[@ronakbarman]

For the Indian audience, it’s 2,47,676.09 Indian rupees

[@SwissWatchGang]

Yes, to correct the format a bit, it's INR 247'984.-

[@ronakbarman]

@@SwissWatchGangincorrect, the indian place-value format is the one I wrote :) it goes as ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten-thousands, lakhs, ten lakhs, etc.

[@BrianNovak-gk5rb]

SWG4L!!!

[@SwissWatchGang]

haha

[@6re881]

Yes but its sold out so.....

[@lightst33l]

Expensive...

[@vincecallagher7636]

They are not even describing the working of the watch!?

[@SwissWatchGang]

It's a La Joux Perret movement which powers the hands, pretty simple watch mechanically.

[@drnick40]

Nice watch. Cool dial design. However it is utterly stupid to advertise something which is sold out. Why? Either produce and sell or don’t bother.

[@SwissWatchGang]

Well, it's their first watch. Their own money, they can't start with thousands...

[@a_lucientes]

All sold out,, grrrr (:

[@deenyc1049]

They're already sold out!

[@SwissWatchGang]

More coming in the future.

[@Hipnosis65]

Looking at it gives me a headache.

[@behwatch]

Woman's hair brush on dial + swatch kind of transparent box

[@SwissWatchGang]

hahahaha

[@v3xx3r]

$3000 usd isn't something you buy and not really think about like the guy said.

[@SwissWatchGang]

@@v3xx3r Depends on your collecting habits and watch collection. But also not a small amount of money I agree.

[@vincecallagher7636]

2600 is NOT cheap!? Nope

[@rrrajlive]

I don't buy it. I mean i can't 😅

[@vincecallagher7636]

Not very impressive, to me. Hmmm

[@krisztianhodossy8848]

Already sold out...

[@vincecallagher7636]

NO

[@MIt-ql5bo]

Just ugly for me..

[@2.Plus.2.Equals.5]

Neat dial, that's literally all I find cool about this. But to act like that was impossible to machine until "nOw"...exaggeration. Not a single logical reason something like that couldn't have been made 50 years ago. A bit of fart sniffing going on.

[@RockerfellerRothchild1776]

No...lol ...just no... Not at all hard to make

[@SwissWatchGang]

Contact the team I’m sure they’ll be happy for your insights.

[@justme...]

Useless

[@eliemaltz1221]

Lame.

[@canadiankrispybacon1450]

Wait a sec…speaks about importance of accessibility … Drop a video on a watch, that’s sold out to their friends🤔 I don’t get it. Not a great way to entice customers imho…should’ve had more pieces to go

[@SwissWatchGang]

Well they financed it all themselves. First edition was family/friends, and the second was public and sold out fast...They'll increase production as they go, they just started.

[@ercanbanka5377]

I saw this watch somewhere but didn't remember what the name of the brand was

[@SwissWatchGang]

Well there you go, I got u.

[@urbanus3546]

Just another gimmick which looks like a cheap kids toy with ridiculous price.

[@mdinhlam]

Just curious - what brands resonate with you?

[@urbanus3546]

@@mdinhlam In a $3000 price range, Longines, Oris, Montblanc, Maurice Lacroix, Seiko/Grand Seiko etc.. Enough ?

[@alextryan]

@@urbanus3546 Oh god.... yes that's plenty. Almost everything those brands make is tired, dull, uninspired design made to tickle weak minds.

[@urbanus3546]

@@alextryan Your comments tells me that you know s.h.i.t. about watches let alone minds. I'm sure you weren't born stupid, you must have worked really hard at it. 🤣🤣🤣

[@NatureandHealthTips]

@@alextryanThey make great classic entry level luxury watches. You know what watches are all about. All you guys want to do is stand out with these abominations because they are sorta different. 3 atm for a tool inspired watch is laughable.