diff --git a/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
index e893c84..1d0acd7 100644
--- a/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@
     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE" />
     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SYSTEM_EXEMPTED" />
 
+    <!-- The stopwatch's foreground service. specialUse, not systemExempted:
+         that type's justification is an app with an exact-alarm permission
+         continuing alarm functionality in the background, and a stopwatch
+         schedules nothing, wakes nothing and rings nothing. Claiming it would
+         have the app tell the platform something untrue (M7 D3). -->
+    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE" />
+
     <!-- Keep the CPU awake for the length of a ring; the screen is the window's
          business, not this one's. -->
     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
@@ -126,6 +133,27 @@
             android:name=".timer.receiver.TimerActionReceiver"
             android:exported="false" />
 
+        <!-- The stopwatch: one foreground service, up while the run is not
+             idle. specialUse rather than systemExempted (M7 D3), and not
+             shortService, which caps at ~3 minutes against a stopwatch that may
+             run for hours. It holds no wake lock: there is no deadline to wake
+             for, and the elapsed value is derived from a persisted monotonic
+             anchor at read time. The <property> is API 31+ and ignored below. -->
+        <service
+            android:name=".stopwatch.service.StopwatchService"
+            android:exported="false"
+            android:foregroundServiceType="specialUse">
+            <property
+                android:name="android.app.PROPERTY_SPECIAL_USE_FGS_SUBTYPE"
+                android:value="stopwatch" />
+        </service>
+
+        <!-- The stopwatch notification's buttons. Broadcasts rather than service
+             starts, and they carry nothing: there is one stopwatch (M7 D16). -->
+        <receiver
+            android:name=".stopwatch.receiver.StopwatchActionReceiver"
+            android:exported="false" />
+
         <!-- Protected system broadcasts are delivered to unexported receivers —
              this is how androidx.work declares its own RescheduleReceiver.
              LOCKED_BOOT_COMPLETED is deliberately absent: the database and the
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ClockulaApp.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ClockulaApp.kt
index 9e1d007..cc3df30 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ClockulaApp.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/ClockulaApp.kt
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import android.app.Application
 import dagger.hilt.android.HiltAndroidApp
 import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.alarm.AlarmEngine
 import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.alarm.ring.RingNotifications
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.StopwatchEngine
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.service.StopwatchNotifications
 import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.timer.TimerEngine
 import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.timer.service.TimerNotifications
 import de.jeanlucmakiola.floret.crash.CrashConfig
@@ -32,6 +34,9 @@ class ClockulaApp : Application() {
     @Inject
     lateinit var timerEngine: TimerEngine
 
+    @Inject
+    lateinit var stopwatchEngine: StopwatchEngine
+
     @Inject
     @ApplicationScope
     lateinit var scope: CoroutineScope
@@ -52,6 +57,7 @@ class ClockulaApp : Application() {
 
         RingNotifications.createChannels(this)
         TimerNotifications.createChannel(this)
+        StopwatchNotifications.createChannel(this)
 
         // The same three steps as a BOOT_COMPLETED, and taken through the engine
         // rather than one by one so the whole pass runs under the engine's lock:
@@ -65,6 +71,12 @@ class ClockulaApp : Application() {
             // timers nothing — the anchors and the AlarmManager slot survive it —
             // but the service may not have, so this brings it back.
             timerEngine.onBootCompleted()
+            // And the third, after the other two. Process death costs the
+            // stopwatch nothing — the run is in DataStore and the laps in Room —
+            // but the service may not have survived it, so this brings it back;
+            // and if this is a new boot the gate above has already repaired the
+            // run, leaving it paused at what it banked (M7 D17).
+            stopwatchEngine.onBootCompleted()
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/alarm/receiver/SystemEventReceiver.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/alarm/receiver/SystemEventReceiver.kt
index 27ac896..ec6b8ae 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/alarm/receiver/SystemEventReceiver.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/alarm/receiver/SystemEventReceiver.kt
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import android.content.Context
 import android.content.Intent
 import dagger.hilt.android.AndroidEntryPoint
 import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.alarm.AlarmEngine
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.StopwatchEngine
 import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.timer.TimerEngine
 import de.jeanlucmakiola.floret.di.ApplicationScope
 import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope
@@ -32,6 +33,9 @@ class SystemEventReceiver : HiltBroadcastReceiver() {
     @Inject
     lateinit var timerEngine: TimerEngine
 
+    @Inject
+    lateinit var stopwatchEngine: StopwatchEngine
+
     @Inject
     @ApplicationScope
     lateinit var scope: CoroutineScope
@@ -47,12 +51,15 @@ class SystemEventReceiver : HiltBroadcastReceiver() {
                     Intent.ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED -> {
                         engine.onBootCompleted()
                         timerEngine.onBootCompleted()
+                        stopwatchEngine.onBootCompleted()
                     }
 
                     Intent.ACTION_MY_PACKAGE_REPLACED -> {
                         engine.onPackageReplaced()
                         // An app update clears AlarmManager for the timers too.
                         timerEngine.resync()
+                        // And it took the stopwatch's service with it.
+                        stopwatchEngine.resync()
                     }
 
                     Intent.ACTION_TIME_CHANGED,
@@ -67,6 +74,11 @@ class SystemEventReceiver : HiltBroadcastReceiver() {
                         // path — so it is re-anchored from the monotonic one
                         // before the resync (M6 D4, D19).
                         timerEngine.onSystemTimeOrZoneChanged()
+                        // The stopwatch writes nothing at all here: its reading
+                        // is monotonic, so it cannot move. The call exists so
+                        // the notification re-posts with a freshly derived
+                        // chronometer base (M7 D4, D17).
+                        stopwatchEngine.onSystemTimeChanged()
                     }
                 }
             } finally {
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/stopwatch/receiver/StopwatchActionReceiver.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/stopwatch/receiver/StopwatchActionReceiver.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7411cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/stopwatch/receiver/StopwatchActionReceiver.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.receiver
+
+import android.content.Context
+import android.content.Intent
+import dagger.hilt.android.AndroidEntryPoint
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.alarm.receiver.HiltBroadcastReceiver
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.StopwatchEngine
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.StopwatchIntents
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.floret.di.ApplicationScope
+import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope
+import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
+import javax.inject.Inject
+
+/**
+ * The stopwatch notification's buttons. A broadcast and not a service start,
+ * because a background foreground-service start can be refused and a broadcast
+ * cannot — and not an activity, because a control should not have to open the
+ * app (D16).
+ *
+ * Nothing is carried at all: there is exactly one stopwatch, so a button has
+ * nothing to identify. Every verb is guarded by the state it makes sense for,
+ * so a button pressed against a stale notification is a silent no-op and the
+ * notification is re-posted from the truth afterwards.
+ */
+@AndroidEntryPoint
+class StopwatchActionReceiver : HiltBroadcastReceiver() {
+
+    @Inject
+    lateinit var engine: StopwatchEngine
+
+    @Inject
+    @ApplicationScope
+    lateinit var scope: CoroutineScope
+
+    override fun onReceive(context: Context, intent: Intent) {
+        super.onReceive(context, intent)
+
+        val action = intent.action ?: return
+        val pendingResult = goAsync()
+        scope.launch {
+            try {
+                when (action) {
+                    StopwatchIntents.ACTION_LAP -> engine.lap()
+                    StopwatchIntents.ACTION_PAUSE -> engine.pause()
+                    StopwatchIntents.ACTION_RESUME -> engine.start()
+                    StopwatchIntents.ACTION_RESET -> engine.reset()
+                }
+            } finally {
+                pendingResult.finish()
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/stopwatch/service/StopwatchNotifications.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/stopwatch/service/StopwatchNotifications.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99a7b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/stopwatch/service/StopwatchNotifications.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+package de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.service
+
+import android.app.Notification
+import android.app.NotificationChannel
+import android.app.NotificationManager
+import android.app.PendingIntent
+import android.content.Context
+import android.content.Intent
+import androidx.core.app.NotificationCompat
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.MainActivity
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.R
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.domain.format.StopwatchFormat
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.domain.stopwatch.StopwatchNotificationAction
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.domain.stopwatch.StopwatchNotificationState
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.StopwatchIntents
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.receiver.StopwatchActionReceiver
+
+/**
+ * One channel and one id for the one stopwatch. The running readout is the
+ * **platform chronometer**, counting *up*, so the system draws the ticking and
+ * the service posts once per state change rather than sixty times a second (D4).
+ *
+ * The channel is `IMPORTANCE_LOW` and silent: nothing here ever finishes, so
+ * nothing here ever needs to heads-up. That is the load-bearing difference from
+ * the timers' HIGH channel, and it is why there is no alert rule in sight.
+ */
+object StopwatchNotifications {
+
+    const val STOPWATCH_CHANNEL_ID: String = "stopwatch"
+
+    /** Beside the alarm's 1_001 and the timers' 1_002. */
+    const val STOPWATCH_NOTIFICATION_ID: Int = 1_003
+
+    /** Idempotent; called from the app class on every start. */
+    fun createChannel(context: Context) {
+        val channel = NotificationChannel(
+            STOPWATCH_CHANNEL_ID,
+            context.getString(R.string.channel_stopwatch_name),
+            // LOW, not HIGH: a stopwatch never expires, so it never has anything
+            // to interrupt the user with (D4).
+            NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_LOW,
+        ).apply {
+            description = context.getString(R.string.channel_stopwatch_description)
+            setSound(null, null)
+            enableVibration(false)
+            lockscreenVisibility = Notification.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC
+        }
+        context.getSystemService(NotificationManager::class.java).createNotificationChannel(channel)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The notification the service goes foreground with the instant it starts,
+     * before it has read anything: `startForeground` must not wait on a
+     * DataStore read. [stopwatch] replaces it under the same id a moment later.
+     */
+    fun preparing(context: Context): Notification =
+        NotificationCompat.Builder(context, STOPWATCH_CHANNEL_ID)
+            .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notification)
+            .setContentTitle(context.getString(R.string.stopwatch_notification_title))
+            .setCategory(NotificationCompat.CATEGORY_STOPWATCH)
+            .setVisibility(NotificationCompat.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC)
+            .setSilent(true)
+            .setOngoing(true)
+            .setAutoCancel(false)
+            .setShowWhen(false)
+            .setContentIntent(showPendingIntent(context))
+            .build()
+
+    /** Two actions at most, and they are the pair the tab's controls offer for that mode (D4). */
+    fun stopwatch(context: Context, state: StopwatchNotificationState): Notification {
+        val builder = NotificationCompat.Builder(context, STOPWATCH_CHANNEL_ID)
+            .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notification)
+            .setContentTitle(context.getString(R.string.stopwatch_notification_title))
+            .setCategory(NotificationCompat.CATEGORY_STOPWATCH)
+            .setVisibility(NotificationCompat.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC)
+            .setOngoing(true)
+            .setAutoCancel(false)
+            // Nothing here ever alerts: the channel is LOW and every post is
+            // silent, so there is no session window and no one heads-up to spend.
+            .setSilent(true)
+            .setOnlyAlertOnce(true)
+            .setContentIntent(showPendingIntent(context))
+
+        if (state.lapCount > 0) {
+            builder.setSubText(
+                context.resources.getQuantityString(
+                    R.plurals.stopwatch_laps_recorded,
+                    state.lapCount,
+                    state.lapCount,
+                ),
+            )
+        }
+
+        val base = state.chronometerBase
+        if (base != null) {
+            // Derived at post time and never stored, which is how the record
+            // keeps its "no wall-clock field whatsoever" rule. Whole seconds,
+            // because a shade entry redrawing at 100 Hz is absurd — and the
+            // platform chronometer does not offer hundredths anyway (D4).
+            builder.setWhen(base.toEpochMilliseconds())
+                .setShowWhen(true)
+                .setUsesChronometer(true)
+                .setChronometerCountDown(false)
+        } else {
+            // Frozen, so the full hundredths are stable — and the precision is
+            // the point of having stopped.
+            builder.setShowWhen(false).setContentText(
+                context.getString(
+                    R.string.stopwatch_paused_at,
+                    StopwatchFormat.precise(state.elapsed),
+                ),
+            )
+        }
+
+        state.actions.forEach { action ->
+            builder.addAction(
+                R.drawable.ic_notification,
+                context.getString(labelFor(action)),
+                actionPendingIntent(context, action),
+            )
+        }
+        return builder.build()
+    }
+
+    private fun labelFor(action: StopwatchNotificationAction): Int = when (action) {
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.LAP -> R.string.stopwatch_lap
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.PAUSE -> R.string.stopwatch_pause
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.RESUME -> R.string.stopwatch_resume
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.RESET -> R.string.stopwatch_reset
+    }
+
+    /** Opens the Stopwatch tab, through the hook M6 built for the timers (D16). */
+    private fun showPendingIntent(context: Context): PendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(
+        context,
+        StopwatchIntents.REQUEST_SHOW,
+        Intent(context, MainActivity::class.java)
+            .setAction(StopwatchIntents.ACTION_SHOW_STOPWATCH)
+            .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK or Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP),
+        PENDING_INTENT_FLAGS,
+    )
+
+    /** No extras and no per-id stride: there is exactly one stopwatch (D16). */
+    private fun actionPendingIntent(
+        context: Context,
+        action: StopwatchNotificationAction,
+    ): PendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(
+        context,
+        requestCode(action),
+        Intent(context, StopwatchActionReceiver::class.java).setAction(actionString(action)),
+        PENDING_INTENT_FLAGS,
+    )
+
+    private fun actionString(action: StopwatchNotificationAction): String = when (action) {
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.LAP -> StopwatchIntents.ACTION_LAP
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.PAUSE -> StopwatchIntents.ACTION_PAUSE
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.RESUME -> StopwatchIntents.ACTION_RESUME
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.RESET -> StopwatchIntents.ACTION_RESET
+    }
+
+    private fun requestCode(action: StopwatchNotificationAction): Int = when (action) {
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.LAP -> StopwatchIntents.REQUEST_LAP
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.PAUSE -> StopwatchIntents.REQUEST_PAUSE
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.RESUME -> StopwatchIntents.REQUEST_RESUME
+        StopwatchNotificationAction.RESET -> StopwatchIntents.REQUEST_RESET
+    }
+
+    private const val PENDING_INTENT_FLAGS: Int =
+        PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT or PendingIntent.FLAG_IMMUTABLE
+}
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/stopwatch/service/StopwatchService.kt b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/stopwatch/service/StopwatchService.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..464c664
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/src/main/java/de/jeanlucmakiola/clockula/stopwatch/service/StopwatchService.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+package de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.service
+
+import android.app.Notification
+import android.app.Service
+import android.content.Context
+import android.content.Intent
+import android.content.pm.ServiceInfo
+import android.os.Build
+import android.os.IBinder
+import androidx.core.app.NotificationManagerCompat
+import dagger.hilt.android.AndroidEntryPoint
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.data.stopwatch.StopwatchRepository
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.domain.stopwatch.StopwatchNotificationState
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.StopwatchEngine
+import de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.stopwatch.StopwatchIntents
+import kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope
+import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
+import kotlinx.coroutines.Job
+import kotlinx.coroutines.SupervisorJob
+import kotlinx.coroutines.cancel
+import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.Flow
+import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.MutableSharedFlow
+import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.combine
+import kotlinx.coroutines.flow.merge
+import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
+import javax.inject.Inject
+
+/**
+ * The stopwatch's foreground service, alive exactly while the run is **not
+ * IDLE** — the live pill's predicate and [StopwatchReadings.isActive][de.jeanlucmakiola.clockula.domain.stopwatch.StopwatchReadings.isActive],
+ * so the shade, the pill and the tab cannot disagree about whether there is a
+ * stopwatch (D15). PAUSED is in it because dropping the notification on pause
+ * would leave a user who paused from the shade with no way to resume.
+ *
+ * It holds **no policy and no state at all**: every decision arrives from
+ * [StopwatchEngine.notificationState], and there is nothing here to alert once,
+ * because nothing here ever finishes. It also holds **no wake lock, ever** — a
+ * stopwatch has no deadline to wake for, and its elapsed value is derived from
+ * a persisted monotonic anchor at read time, so a CPU asleep for an hour loses
+ * nothing (D3).
+ *
+ * It is not the timekeeper. The anchors are, and they survive its absence.
+ */
+@AndroidEntryPoint
+class StopwatchService : Service() {
+
+    @Inject
+    lateinit var engine: StopwatchEngine
+
+    @Inject
+    lateinit var stopwatch: StopwatchRepository
+
+    private val scope = CoroutineScope(SupervisorJob() + Dispatchers.Main.immediate)
+
+    private var collector: Job? = null
+
+    /**
+     * `startForeground` is for going foreground, not for posting: every engine
+     * verb ends in a sync, so re-posting the placeholder on each
+     * `onStartCommand` would replace the live notification until the
+     * collector's next pass.
+     */
+    private var wentForeground: Boolean = false
+
+    /** The last start command's id, so [stop] can decline to die on a newer one. */
+    private var lastStartId: Int = 0
+
+    /** A verb's way of asking for another pass when nothing observable changed. */
+    private val refresh = MutableSharedFlow<Unit>(extraBufferCapacity = 1)
+
+    override fun onBind(intent: Intent?): IBinder? = null
+
+    override fun onStartCommand(intent: Intent?, flags: Int, startId: Int): Int {
+        lastStartId = startId
+        if (intent?.action == StopwatchIntents.ACTION_SERVICE_STOP) {
+            stop()
+            return START_NOT_STICKY
+        }
+
+        // Before any suspension point, and on the first path only: the platform
+        // gives a foreground service a few seconds to post its notification.
+        if (!wentForeground) startForeground(StopwatchNotifications.preparing(this))
+
+        if (collector == null) {
+            collector = scope.launch {
+                triggers().collect { apply(engine.notificationState()) }
+            }
+        } else {
+            refresh.tryEmit(Unit)
+        }
+
+        // Sticky rather than re-delivered: the intent carries nothing, because a
+        // service the system recreated must know exactly as much as one the
+        // engine started — and it reads all of it from storage.
+        return START_STICKY
+    }
+
+    override fun onDestroy() {
+        scope.cancel()
+        super.onDestroy()
+    }
+
+    /** The run and its laps: the subtext counts the laps, so the table is a trigger too. */
+    private fun triggers(): Flow<Unit> = merge(
+        combine(stopwatch.run(), stopwatch.laps()) { _, _ -> Unit },
+        refresh,
+    )
+
+    private fun apply(state: StopwatchNotificationState?) {
+        if (state == null) {
+            // Nothing active: the service stops itself rather than waiting to be
+            // told to, so "down when the stopwatch is idle" needs no second caller.
+            stop()
+            return
+        }
+        startForeground(StopwatchNotifications.stopwatch(this, state))
+    }
+
+    private fun startForeground(notification: Notification) {
+        wentForeground = true
+        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.UPSIDE_DOWN_CAKE) {
+            // specialUse, and deliberately **not** systemExempted: that type's
+            // justification is alarm functionality continuing in the background,
+            // and a stopwatch schedules nothing, wakes nothing and rings nothing.
+            // Claiming it would be the app telling the platform something untrue (D3).
+            startForeground(
+                StopwatchNotifications.STOPWATCH_NOTIFICATION_ID,
+                notification,
+                ServiceInfo.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_TYPE_SPECIAL_USE,
+            )
+        } else {
+            startForeground(StopwatchNotifications.STOPWATCH_NOTIFICATION_ID, notification)
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun stop() {
+        stopForeground(STOP_FOREGROUND_REMOVE)
+        // The placeholder is posted before anything is read, so a service that
+        // starts with nothing active must take its own notification with it.
+        NotificationManagerCompat.from(this).cancel(StopwatchNotifications.STOPWATCH_NOTIFICATION_ID)
+        wentForeground = false
+        // `stopSelfResult`, not `stopSelf`: resetting the stopwatch and starting
+        // a new run immediately delivers a start command to this still-live
+        // instance, and dying anyway would leave a running stopwatch with no
+        // notification until the next resync.
+        stopSelfResult(lastStartId)
+    }
+
+    companion object {
+        fun start(context: Context) {
+            context.startForegroundService(Intent(context, StopwatchService::class.java))
+        }
+
+        fun stop(context: Context) {
+            context.startService(
+                Intent(context, StopwatchService::class.java)
+                    .setAction(StopwatchIntents.ACTION_SERVICE_STOP),
+            )
+        }
+    }
+}