mondaine is the trademark for a series of watches made by the swiss company mondaine watch ltd. a line of mondaine watches is heavily influenced by classical swiss railway clocks called the official swiss railways watch sbb to a design licensed from the swiss federal railways since 1986 . this design by hans hilfiker originated in 1944 . 1 the original movement was unlike other watches and unique because of the following fact by spreading 58 seconds over the 360 degrees rather than the usual 60 seconds the second hand comes to a complete stop at the 12 numeral for two seconds giving the illusion that time has stopped . then the minute hand advances one step and the second hand starts a new cycle . however the company stopped making models with this mechanism around 2001 . 2 in 2013 a redesigned model was launched under the name stop2go . 3 in keeping with how the movement itself works the crown is shaped like a rocker switch that you flip back and forth instead of winding . in 2006 a fifty percent stake in the american luminox company was purchased by the swiss brand mondaine giving mondaine increased access to the american market and luminox increased access to the european and asian markets . 4 additionally mondaine offers a selection of models inspired by modern art . contents 1 use of non swiss components 2 controversy over apple ipad s ios 6 clock design 3 references 4 external links use of non swiss components edit mondaine uses imported components to maintain low prices and profitability . the watches are permitted to carry the label swiss made under a 1971 swiss law that only requires that just over 50 % of the components be of swiss origin . mondaine co owner ronnie bernheim spoke against legislation supported by the federation of the swiss watch industry which would require that more swiss components be used . bernheim argued this law would be cutting the industry into two . the volume business will be killed except for the big companies . our foreign competitors are laughing . swatch group chief executive officer nick hayek jr. who supported the legislation argued that preserving the swiss brand was important to the long term survival of the industry . swiss made is very important as the basis for this industry . we re not going to produce in india russia or anywhere else . 5 controversy over apple ipad s ios 6 clock design edit in 2012 apple company paid 22.5 million swiss francs to mondaine to license the design for use in the ipad clock . mondaine initially threatened to sue because apple s ipad clock design too closely resembled a trademarked design created in 1944 by sbb employee hans hilfiker which is now licensed to mondaine ; apple agreed to settle the matter out of court . 6 references edit about us . mondaine watch ltd. retrieved 2013 08 30 . customer service response press release by mondaine 27 june 2013 luminox the american watch brand teams up with mondaine allbusiness monday april 3 2006 businessweek apple pays 21m for clock design cnet.com external links edit www.mondaine.ch official web site www.mondaine.com official web site wikimedia commons has media related to mondaine . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mondaine & oldid 712772300 categories watch brandsswiss brandshidden categories commons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aisnederlands portugu ssvenska edit links this page was last modified on 31 march 2016 at 01 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view