SCHOMBURGK&CO
SIAM
SCHOMBURGK&CO
SIAM
Quod Periit, Renascitur
That which perished is born again
Rucervus schomburgki · Declared extinct 1938
Schomburgk's deer roamed the flooded plains of central Siam and nowhere else on earth. Naturalists of the age recorded its antlers as the most elaborate ever set upon a deer.
Then it was gone. Quietly. Not one second of it was ever captured in motion. What remains is a handful of preserved antlers and a story that fades a little more each year.
We cannot bring it back. We can make certain it is not forgotten.
88 Years of Silence
In 1938 the last Schomburgk’s deer in human care was killed at a temple in Samut Sakhon. From that day to this one is exactly eighty-eight years.
So we will build eighty-eight pieces. Not one more. No more than twelve in any year. When the last is delivered the founder’s era closes, and the “Founder’s Edition 88” will never be produced again.
What makes the story stranger is that some scientists still believe the deer never truly went. In 1991 a set of seemingly fresh antlers was photographed in Laos, and the argument has not been settled since.
Leave your address to hear of the first piece before anyone else.
Or write to us directly at atelier@schomburgk.company
Every piece begins with a conversation, not a catalogue. The patron chooses the materials, the engraving and the details alongside the watchmaker, before a single component is formed.
Thai decorative motifs such as the lai prajam yam are engraved by hand into the dial and the case, set within a restrained neo-classical architecture that never announces itself.
Each number is recorded permanently alongside its first patron. The registry does not reopen during the year, and no piece is ever remade in the years that follow.
Across twelve to twenty-four months a patron does not simply wait. The whole process stays open to them.
We meet in person to understand what this piece should say, before either of us commits to the other.
Hand drawings and technical plans reach you. No component is formed until you are satisfied.
Photographs of the work arrive at intervals, with notes from the hands building your piece.
The movement is assembled and regulated for accuracy. You are invited to witness this stage yourself.
Delivered in person, and your name entered permanently into the register of patrons.
We cannot bring back Schomburgk's deer. Other creatures in Thailand's forests are walking the same road today. A share of every piece we build goes directly to Thai wildlife conservation.
The real figures are published on this page each year, open to inspection.
This house began with an image I have never been able to set down.
A creature that lived on this land and nowhere else, gone before anyone thought to keep a record of it. I kept wondering how much else is slipping away in the same silence: the stories, and the hands that still know how a thing should be made.
So I chose to work as slowly as it is possible to work. A few pieces a year, by craftsmen whose names I know. What is meant to outlive us should never be hurried.
I never set out to build something large. I set out to build something the grandchildren of the first patron would still want to keep. That is why we make only a few pieces each year, and why we always will.
Joe Thanaphon SirikiatwarakulFounder · Bangkok
If you wish to be considered as a patron in the 2026 commissions, please write to arrange a private meeting.
Request a private meetingEvery enquiry is answered personally within seven days. A meeting carries no obligation.
Some stories have already waited
eighty-eight years. A few more
months will not hurt them.