Hi all, I saw this one online and I have never seen one of these dials before. Can anyone shed some light for the purpose of these watches and if they are common?
@Vitezi stumbled across the same one and posted about it here https://omegaforums.net/threads/pulsations-seamaster.51294/#post-618516 However from the lack of responses I'm not sure many people know about it.
I don't know if they are common but it's a standard pulsometer style dial. I have no idea if it's original although the fonts look good but as it's not a chronograph, it's marked so you can start counting fifteen pulses from either 0 seconds (on the right) or 30 seconds (on the left). If you start at 0, for example, and count fifteen of the patient's pulses at which point the second hand has reached 10 seconds then you read the heart rate is 90 beats per minute. Fifteen in 20 seconds and you read a rate of 45 beats per minute. It's graduated for fifteen pulses as it says in Latin on the dial as many are graduated for 30 pulses. You know the medical profession like to use Latin so we don't know what they've written.... Cheers, Chris
Longines had them also. These were sold through a specialty catalog for medical professionals. gatorcpa
Its an original dial, one sold on Christies back in 2009. http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/omega-a-rare-and-unusual-stainless-steel-5257517-details.aspx They are very rare, I know of 3 examples including the Christies, I believe another one is owned by a Japanese collector. It could be the one you found on instagram? I honestly doubt these were sold on a medical catalogue, wouldn't we see them more often?
Interesting piece, never come across one. I've got one pulsations chronograph and have been looking for others but seems odd that it's not on a watch with a stop/start function. Interesting "double scale" to try and accommodate for that.
Fascinating... without the chronograph function it is less effective... but I would prefer a 15 pulse gradation... 30 pulses is a long awkward time when someone has a slow pulse.... Although I think I'll still keep mine as it is....
If anyone is interested this one is still for sale. I did not buy it but can point you to the seller if anyone is keen. The seller was asking for ~10k less than the one that sold at Christies. I can't believe this watch would be worth $13k+??
Edit - removing link on seller request. Here's the profile of the seller on Instagram. I am not affiliated with the seller nor do I know them so I would do your due diligence before buying. If I wasn't preparing to buy an apartment I would have made an offer
Not very useful without chronograph. Nice novelty for medical professionals though. Here's my modern bezel on a vintage speedy.
https://www.chrono24.com.hr/omega/ko-2846-medical--model-exclusive-and-rare---id19401114.htm Same watch for sale on chrono24
I had a rush of blood and bought this medicus because I thought it was interesting. Guy said it belonged to his father who was an army medic.
I think it is Croatian Kuna. 6.3 to US$1. Here is US website: https://www.chrono24.com/omega/ko-2...re---id19401114.htm?SETLANG=en_US&SETCURR=USD The watch is nice, but not worth US$10,000 in this or any other universe. gatorcpa