Some people are easily pleased. Give Ianto Jones a stopwatch and he’s more than happy. Still, when you consider the fact that the stopwatch he’s grown so attached to has seen him through the harrowing experiences of raising two friends from the dead (who wasn’t counting the seconds with him when they brought Owen back and the hand ticked over the two minute mark?), not to mention the rather more colourfiul used he and Jack have hinted at…
Just like Ianto himself, it works perfectly with barely a sound, and you can rely on it for a hundred different uses! Truly, there are lots of things you can do with a stopwatch, even if you need a rather filthy mind to conceive of even half of them. So it’s understandable that he (and we!) love it. It’s all about the button on the top, you know…
Little Reasons Why We Love Torchwood – 01: Ianto’s Stopwatch (Torchwood Magazine Issue #14)