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Jones in LA
··Not in LA anymore.And I love it!
I'd been looking for a knock-around watch that would be fun to use and wear, and found the ideal candidate: a Swiss Railway clock that you can wear on your wrist!
The watch really works like a Swiss Railway clock. When the seconds hand reaches the 12 o'clock position, it stops in place and holds there for two seconds; after the first second of this pause, the minute hand snaps forward precisely to the next minute marker, and after the second second of the pause, the seconds hand resumes normal motion. It's a fascinating...dare I say...complication. Mondaine calls this clock-mimicking complication "Stop 2, Go".
Another fun feature of the watch is its timesetting mechanism. When the crown is pulled out, the seconds hand sweeps smoothly to the 12 o'clock position and stops there. Then, the crown functions like a servo controller: turning the crown forward advances the minute and hour hands forward electronically, and turning the crown backward rotates the minute & hour hands backward, electronically. Turning and holding the crown causes the minute and hour hands to advance/retreat swiftly, whereas nudging the crown causes the minute (and hour hand) to move in precise, 1/2-minute increments/decrements. Did I mention that this watch is fun?
For the time-keeping purist, the watch does have one peculiarity that he/she should be aware of. Because the seconds hand spends two full seconds hanging out at 12 o'clock each minute, it has to race across the rest of the dial at slightly quickened pace when it's moving. Thus, the seconds hand passes between minute markers in 0.967 seconds. But when you're having this much fun, who cares about those 0.0333 seconds?
Here are a couple of additional photos, and a video which demonstrates the Stop 2, Go feature.
I'd been looking for a knock-around watch that would be fun to use and wear, and found the ideal candidate: a Swiss Railway clock that you can wear on your wrist!
The watch really works like a Swiss Railway clock. When the seconds hand reaches the 12 o'clock position, it stops in place and holds there for two seconds; after the first second of this pause, the minute hand snaps forward precisely to the next minute marker, and after the second second of the pause, the seconds hand resumes normal motion. It's a fascinating...dare I say...complication. Mondaine calls this clock-mimicking complication "Stop 2, Go".
Another fun feature of the watch is its timesetting mechanism. When the crown is pulled out, the seconds hand sweeps smoothly to the 12 o'clock position and stops there. Then, the crown functions like a servo controller: turning the crown forward advances the minute and hour hands forward electronically, and turning the crown backward rotates the minute & hour hands backward, electronically. Turning and holding the crown causes the minute and hour hands to advance/retreat swiftly, whereas nudging the crown causes the minute (and hour hand) to move in precise, 1/2-minute increments/decrements. Did I mention that this watch is fun?
For the time-keeping purist, the watch does have one peculiarity that he/she should be aware of. Because the seconds hand spends two full seconds hanging out at 12 o'clock each minute, it has to race across the rest of the dial at slightly quickened pace when it's moving. Thus, the seconds hand passes between minute markers in 0.967 seconds. But when you're having this much fun, who cares about those 0.0333 seconds?
Here are a couple of additional photos, and a video which demonstrates the Stop 2, Go feature.
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