![Hans Hilfiker’s SBB station clock, after 1955.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/die-sbb-bahnhofsuhr-von-hans-hilfiker-nach-1955-300x225.jpg)
The iconic Swiss station clock
The Bundeshaus in Bern, Lucerne’s Kapellbrücke bridge, Geneva’s Jet d’eau: Switzerland has a whole host of landmarks. And yet there’s one of them to which we never give a second thought, even though we see it every day: the Swiss railway station clock.
![Hans Hilfiker at an exhibition on pioneers of Swiss design at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich, October 1984.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/hans-hilfiker-im-rahmen-einer-ausstellung-zu-schweizer-designpionieren-1984-300x216.jpg)
![Platform roofs at Winterthur-Grüze railway station, designed by Hans Hilfiker, photograph from 1992.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/perrondacher-des-bahnhofs-winterthur-gruze-300x178.jpg)
![Movement of a Swiss station clock manufactured by Mobatime, 1947-1959 model.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/werk-einer-schweizer-bahnhofsuhr-hergestellt-von-mobatime-modell-19471959-201x300.jpg)
At the full minute, the sweep hand on the SBB clock takes a short break. Swiss National Museum