Mondaine SBB Smart stop2go 4+

The app works fine and accurate setting of the wall clock is easy - but only when you actually understand how it works. Use one of the helpful YouTube videos which explain how to set the clock in simple steps. The in-app instructions are neither intuitive nor comprehensive.

This App must be a serious contender for the prize of most confusing, obscure and agrannoying set of instructions in the App Store. After spending 2 or 3 hours trying all the possible permutations of battery insertion, loading the App & opening the app and failing to get within a couple of hours of the correct time I resorted to a web search and discovered a utube explaining how to set the Smart??? Stop2Go. This is slightly less confusing and after stopping and rewinding the utube a few times have set the clock showing the time and it’s only 15 seconds slow!! The Stop2Go feature stops and goes at 15 seconds before the minute rather than on the minutes but will wrestle with this when my stress level recedes. If the Swiss Railway uses this Mondaine timekeeping I recommend you sell any shares you have.

This isn’t Mondaine’s attempt to create a nice clock for your iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch, this app is required exclusively for the setting of a physical Mondaine clock that uses Bluetooth rather than old fashioned (!) dials on the back of the clock. The app works well and is intuitive enough to work out what you’ve done wrong if you didn’t read the instructions that came with your clock.