diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Logger/DbalLogger.php b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Logger/DbalLogger.php
index 921dbdf880..9d441a2738 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Logger/DbalLogger.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/Logger/DbalLogger.php
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 namespace Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Logger;
 
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Log\LoggerInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\Stopwatch;
+use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch;
 use Doctrine\DBAL\Logging\SQLLogger;
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/composer.json
index 325c335e3e..b65b8cbcd9 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/composer.json
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Doctrine/composer.json
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
         "php": ">=5.3.3",
         "doctrine/common": ">=2.2,<2.4-dev"
     },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "symfony/stopwatch": "2.2.*"
+    },
     "suggest": {
         "symfony/form": "2.2.*",
         "symfony/validator": "2.2.*",
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Propel1/Logger/PropelLogger.php b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Propel1/Logger/PropelLogger.php
index 43211a034d..8e38f2418e 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Propel1/Logger/PropelLogger.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Propel1/Logger/PropelLogger.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 namespace Symfony\Bridge\Propel1\Logger;
 
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\Stopwatch;
+use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Log\LoggerInterface;
 
 /**
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class PropelLogger
     protected $queries;
 
     /**
-     * @var \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\Stopwatch
+     * @var Stopwatch
      */
     protected $stopwatch;
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Propel1/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Propel1/composer.json
index b4fb61284a..3e9bdd3299 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bridge/Propel1/composer.json
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bridge/Propel1/composer.json
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
         "symfony/form": "2.2.*",
         "propel/propel1": "1.6.*"
     },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "symfony/stopwatch": "2.2.*"
+    },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-0": { "Symfony\\Bridge\\Propel1\\": "" }
     },
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/debug.xml b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/debug.xml
index 8885557a10..a1c332a6ab 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/debug.xml
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/Resources/config/debug.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     <parameters>
         <parameter key="debug.event_dispatcher.class">Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\TraceableEventDispatcher</parameter>
-        <parameter key="debug.stopwatch.class">Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\Stopwatch</parameter>
+        <parameter key="debug.stopwatch.class">Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch</parameter>
         <parameter key="debug.container.dump">%kernel.cache_dir%/%kernel.container_class%.xml</parameter>
         <parameter key="debug.controller_resolver.class">Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Controller\TraceableControllerResolver</parameter>
     </parameters>
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/composer.json
index d61031eb58..3f2ad2f0c1 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/composer.json
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/FrameworkBundle/composer.json
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
         "symfony/http-kernel": "2.2.*",
         "symfony/filesystem": "2.2.*",
         "symfony/routing": "2.2.*",
+        "symfony/stopwatch": "2.2.*",
         "symfony/templating": "2.2.*",
         "symfony/translation": "2.2.*",
         "doctrine/common": ">=2.2,<2.4-dev"
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/TwigBundle/Debug/TimedTwigEngine.php b/src/Symfony/Bundle/TwigBundle/Debug/TimedTwigEngine.php
index e428401faa..33178e70a8 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/TwigBundle/Debug/TimedTwigEngine.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/TwigBundle/Debug/TimedTwigEngine.php
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ namespace Symfony\Bundle\TwigBundle\Debug;
 use Symfony\Bundle\TwigBundle\TwigEngine;
 use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Templating\GlobalVariables;
 use Symfony\Component\Templating\TemplateNameParserInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\Stopwatch;
+use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch;
 use Symfony\Component\Config\FileLocatorInterface;
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Bundle/TwigBundle/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Bundle/TwigBundle/composer.json
index 3e05e854df..b65b8923bd 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Bundle/TwigBundle/composer.json
+++ b/src/Symfony/Bundle/TwigBundle/composer.json
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
         "php": ">=5.3.3",
         "symfony/twig-bridge": "2.2.*"
     },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "symfony/stopwatch": "2.2.*"
+    },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-0": { "Symfony\\Bundle\\TwigBundle\\": "" }
     },
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/CHANGELOG.md b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/CHANGELOG.md
index 19859f52a2..2186e76a9c 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CHANGELOG
 2.2.0
 -----
 
+ * moved the Stopwatch classes to a new component
  * added TraceableControllerResolver
  * added TraceableEventDispatcher (removed ContainerAwareTraceableEventDispatcher)
  * added support for WinCache opcode cache in ConfigDataCollector
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Controller/TraceableControllerResolver.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Controller/TraceableControllerResolver.php
index e3f29ae53a..f8de31cf07 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Controller/TraceableControllerResolver.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Controller/TraceableControllerResolver.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 namespace Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Controller;
 
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\Stopwatch;
+use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/TraceableEventDispatcher.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/TraceableEventDispatcher.php
index aa878bc84c..c6b5ef7436 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/TraceableEventDispatcher.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/TraceableEventDispatcher.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 namespace Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug;
 
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\Stopwatch;
+use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Log\LoggerInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Profiler\Profile;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Profiler\Profiler;
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/TraceableEventDispatcherTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/TraceableEventDispatcherTest.php
index 2177f2bbb4..88318cc2e9 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/TraceableEventDispatcherTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/TraceableEventDispatcherTest.php
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcher;
 use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Event;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\TraceableEventDispatcher;
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\Stopwatch;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\HttpKernel;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
+use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch;
 
 class TraceableEventDispatcherTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
 {
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/composer.json
index 40f10b333b..a6cf81f10e 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/composer.json
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/composer.json
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
         "symfony/dependency-injection": "2.2.*",
         "symfony/finder": "2.2.*",
         "symfony/process": "2.2.*",
-        "symfony/routing": "2.2.*"
+        "symfony/routing": "2.2.*",
+        "symfony/stopwatch": "2.2.*"
     },
     "suggest": {
         "symfony/browser-kit": "2.2.*",
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/.gitattributes b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/.gitattributes
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e742c9b351
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/.gitattributes
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Tests/ export-ignore
+phpunit.xml.dist export-ignore
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/.gitignore b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..48b8bf9072
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+vendor/
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/LICENSE b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cdffe7aebc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Copyright (c) 2004-2012 Fabien Potencier
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished
+to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/README.md b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..601ce3224c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Stopwatch Component
+===================
+
+Stopwatch provides a way to profile code.
+
+Resources
+---------
+
+You can run the unit tests with the following command:
+
+    $ cd path/to/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/
+    $ composer.phar install --dev
+    $ phpunit
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/Stopwatch.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/Stopwatch.php
similarity index 99%
rename from src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/Stopwatch.php
rename to src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/Stopwatch.php
index 7f2673d386..74483a7b2a 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/Stopwatch.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/Stopwatch.php
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * file that was distributed with this source code.
  */
 
-namespace Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug;
+namespace Symfony\Component\Stopwatch;
 
 /**
  * Stopwatch provides a way to profile code.
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/StopwatchEvent.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/StopwatchEvent.php
similarity index 98%
rename from src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/StopwatchEvent.php
rename to src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/StopwatchEvent.php
index 82c463906f..a8146fe6f7 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/StopwatchEvent.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/StopwatchEvent.php
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * file that was distributed with this source code.
  */
 
-namespace Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug;
+namespace Symfony\Component\Stopwatch;
 
 /**
  * Represents an Event managed by Stopwatch.
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/StopwatchPeriod.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/StopwatchPeriod.php
similarity index 97%
rename from src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/StopwatchPeriod.php
rename to src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/StopwatchPeriod.php
index f920e8dedb..221ee792f7 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Debug/StopwatchPeriod.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/StopwatchPeriod.php
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  * file that was distributed with this source code.
  */
 
-namespace Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug;
+namespace Symfony\Component\Stopwatch;
 
 /**
  * Represents an Period for an Event.
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/StopwatchEventTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/Tests/StopwatchEventTest.php
similarity index 97%
rename from src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/StopwatchEventTest.php
rename to src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/Tests/StopwatchEventTest.php
index a739bc8a73..f4e3cd7f86 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/StopwatchEventTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/Tests/StopwatchEventTest.php
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
  * file that was distributed with this source code.
  */
 
-namespace Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Tests\Debug;
+namespace Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Tests;
 
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\StopwatchEvent;
+use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\StopwatchEvent;
 
 /**
  * StopwatchEventTest
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/StopwatchTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/Tests/StopwatchTest.php
similarity index 88%
rename from src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/StopwatchTest.php
rename to src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/Tests/StopwatchTest.php
index 210acb5959..8a77d8a0aa 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpKernel/Tests/Debug/StopwatchTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/Tests/StopwatchTest.php
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
  * file that was distributed with this source code.
  */
 
-namespace Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Tests\Debug;
+namespace Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Tests;
 
-use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\Stopwatch;
+use Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\Stopwatch;
 
 /**
  * StopwatchTest
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class StopwatchTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
         $event = $stopwatch->start('foo', 'cat');
 
-        $this->assertInstanceof('Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\StopwatchEvent', $event);
+        $this->assertInstanceof('Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\StopwatchEvent', $event);
         $this->assertEquals('cat', $event->getCategory());
     }
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class StopwatchTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         usleep(20000);
         $event = $stopwatch->stop('foo');
 
-        $this->assertInstanceof('Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\StopwatchEvent', $event);
+        $this->assertInstanceof('Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\StopwatchEvent', $event);
         $total = $event->getTotalTime();
         $this->assertTrue($total > 10 && $total <= 29, $total.' should be 20 (between 10 and 29)');
     }
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class StopwatchTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         usleep(10000);
         $stopwatch->stop('foo');
 
-        $this->assertInstanceof('Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Debug\StopwatchEvent', $event);
+        $this->assertInstanceof('Symfony\Component\Stopwatch\StopwatchEvent', $event);
         $total = $event->getTotalTime();
         $this->assertTrue($total > 10 && $total <= 29, $total.' should be 20 (between 10 and 29)');
     }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/composer.json b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/composer.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..30336fc65c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/composer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{
+    "name": "symfony/stopwatch",
+    "type": "library",
+    "description": "Symfony Stopwatch Component",
+    "keywords": [],
+    "homepage": "http://symfony.com",
+    "license": "MIT",
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "name": "Fabien Potencier",
+            "email": "fabien@symfony.com"
+        },
+        {
+            "name": "Symfony Community",
+            "homepage": "http://symfony.com/contributors"
+        }
+    ],
+    "require": {
+        "php": ">=5.3.3"
+    },
+    "autoload": {
+        "psr-0": { "Symfony\\Component\\Stopwatch\\": "" }
+    },
+    "target-dir": "Symfony/Component/Stopwatch",
+    "minimum-stability": "dev",
+    "extra": {
+        "branch-alias": {
+            "dev-master": "2.2-dev"
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/phpunit.xml.dist b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/phpunit.xml.dist
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d3b5ba7cea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Stopwatch/phpunit.xml.dist
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<phpunit backupGlobals="false"
+         backupStaticAttributes="false"
+         colors="true"
+         convertErrorsToExceptions="true"
+         convertNoticesToExceptions="true"
+         convertWarningsToExceptions="true"
+         processIsolation="false"
+         stopOnFailure="false"
+         syntaxCheck="false"
+         bootstrap="vendor/autoload.php"
+>
+    <testsuites>
+        <testsuite name="Symfony Stopwatch Component Test Suite">
+            <directory>./Tests/</directory>
+        </testsuite>
+    </testsuites>
+
+    <filter>
+        <whitelist>
+            <directory>./</directory>
+            <exclude>
+                <directory>./Tests</directory>
+                <directory>./vendor</directory>
+            </exclude>
+        </whitelist>
+    </filter>
+</phpunit>