Fifty-eight seconds, then a pause
By Sam Okafor, London ยท
Swiss station clocks have a peculiar habit. The red seconds hand sweeps round in about fifty-eight seconds, then stops at twelve for a moment while the clock waits for a signal from the central master clock, then the minute hand jumps forward and the seconds hand starts again. It's a beautiful piece of practical choreography and you can watch it at Zurich Hauptbahnhof any time you're there.
The stop2go reproduces that pause on the wrist. I think it's one of the most charming complications in watchmaking, precisely because it does nothing useful. The second hand pauses, the minute hand ticks on, and you get a small reminder that railway time was once a system of wires and signals rather than an app.
The watch itself is the Hilfiker dial at 41 mm and 12 mm thick, white, with sapphire and a closed back. 12 mm is chunky for a quartz watch and that's the price of the mechanism. And the metal bracelet bothers me here just as it does on the Classic.
880 dollars for a quartz watch is steep in pure value terms. I'd still buy it before the automatic Evo2, because it does something no other watch at any price does.