Commuting means your day runs by the clock from the get-go – whether it’s train connections, meetings or to-do lists, there’s one tight time slot after another. This makes it all the more important to have one place where you don’t have to be switched on: your own home. But even there, time catches up with you. The old wall clock runs slow, while the smart alternative keeps flashing and needs to be synchronised manually all the time. Both are a nuisance, just in different ways. What’s missing is reliability doesn’t require active management.
This is where the Mondaine SBB stop2go wall clock comes in. You’ve been seeing its dial all your life – at the train station, when you’re setting off on holiday or to meet friends, or on your way to work. And now it’s hanging on the wall at home, exhibiting the same quality that makes Swiss station clocks so reliable. At its heart lies the extraordinary stop2go movement: a remarkable feat of engineering, in which the distinctive red second hand completes a full rotation in 58 seconds and then pauses briefly at 12 o’clock, allowing the minute hand to jump elegantly to the next minute. This pause pays homage to the original synchronisation process, in which the original master clock would synchronise perfectly with all the station clocks across Switzerland every minute. A painstaking process that not only ensured the Swiss Federal Railways ran to schedule, but also established Switzerland’s reputation for unrivalled precision.