Medical Lum Tec chrono?

[Thames]

Hi!
I'm an EMT in the states, and I have been looking around for an affordable watch aimed at the medical community. Medical personnel are avid watch fans =-) I was thinking in the $300 - $500 range.

I wanted to see what everyone thought about a Lum Tec geared that way?

A chrono with a pulse meter is a must, and a respiration meter would be awesome too! it would need to be easy to sterilize.

My personal preferences would be a 10 or 15 min dial for one of the chrono dials, pulse + resp meters, left hand buttons, 13-24 marked somewhere around the hour marks, The primary (big) second hand operated by the stopwatch, while the main second hand would be in a subdial, and a date window. somehow fitting a slide rule on there would be awesome, but I'm not sure if there would be much room =-/

I have a watch with a slide rule that's awesome for quickly calculating tank pressures, but if I had to choose between that and a pulse / resp meter I would want the meters more.

For anyone interested in similar watches, here's a few with some of the features specific to the medical community.
Sinn EZM4 Achilles
Sinn 144
St Gallen watches

Those are just a few good examples.

Anyway, let me know what you guys think!

[jaz419]

Hi!
I'm an EMT in the states, and I have been looking around for an affordable watch aimed at the medical community. Medical personnel are avid watch fans =-) I was thinking in the $300 - $500 range.

I wanted to see what everyone thought about a Lum Tec geared that way?

A chrono with a pulse meter is a must, and a respiration meter would be awesome too! it would need to be easy to sterilize.

My personal preferences would be a 10 or 15 min dial for one of the chrono dials, pulse + resp meters, left hand buttons, 13-24 marked somewhere around the hour marks, The primary (big) second hand operated by the stopwatch, while the main second hand would be in a subdial, and a date window. somehow fitting a slide rule on there would be awesome, but I'm not sure if there would be much room =-/

I have a watch with a slide rule that's awesome for quickly calculating tank pressures, but if I had to choose between that and a pulse / resp meter I would want the meters more.

For anyone interested in similar watches, here's a few with some of the features specific to the medical community.
Sinn EZM4 Achilles
Sinn 144
St Gallen watches

Those are just a few good examples.

Anyway, let me know what you guys think!

I support this idea! Although, I'm partial to automatics.
Paramedic/FF in training here

[JackDFD]

I've never needed the functions you speak of as a paramedic. I use the second hand for checking pulse and minute hand for timing meds. I hope you find something you like though.

[Wombat]

Hi!
I'm an EMT in the states, and I have been looking around for an affordable watch aimed at the medical community. Medical personnel are avid watch fans =-) I was thinking in the $300 - $500 range.

I wanted to see what everyone thought about a Lum Tec geared that way?

A chrono with a pulse meter is a must, and a respiration meter would be awesome too! it would need to be easy to sterilize.

My personal preferences would be a 10 or 15 min dial for one of the chrono dials, pulse + resp meters, left hand buttons, 13-24 marked somewhere around the hour marks, The primary (big) second hand operated by the stopwatch, while the main second hand would be in a subdial, and a date window. somehow fitting a slide rule on there would be awesome, but I'm not sure if there would be much room =-/

I have a watch with a slide rule that's awesome for quickly calculating tank pressures, but if I had to choose between that and a pulse / resp meter I would want the meters more.

For anyone interested in similar watches, here's a few with some of the features specific to the medical community.
Sinn EZM4 Achilles
Sinn 144
St Gallen watches

Those are just a few good examples.

Anyway, let me know what you guys think!

I'd be interested in one too! I would prefer a central second hand though so you don't need to start/stop the chrono. Or maybe a lefty flyback of some sort? The four-way second hand of the St. Gallen is a great way of using the central seconds hand to do the timing.

And graduating for 15 pulsations would be great! 30 can just take too long!

I really love these types of watches. If you are interested as well have a look at my post about pulsometers.

[Thames]

I've never needed the functions you speak of as a paramedic. I use the second hand for checking pulse and minute hand for timing meds. I hope you find something you like though.

I agree. I have never "needed" a watch like this, since standard timepieces are just fine for keeping time, but as someone wanting to add a couple more Lum Tec watches to my collection, something made specifically for the medical field would be awesome. It would certainly be a collector's item that has the bonus of being functional.

[Ray Knight]

Guys, if you can find a movement with these functions please bring it to my attention adn we will see what we can do :)

[Wombat]

For the movement, it is just a chrono with a tachy style bezel but graduated to plusations. Or, the one I prefer, just the tachy and continuous central seconds hand, like the St. Gallens.

I have included below some examples from my article about pulsometers. You can read the article here:
http://www.watchtalkforums.info/foru...r-journey.html

So as you can see, you don't need a special movement, just a special dial and/or bezel. A 2010 B Combat with the tachy on the dial, for example. A lefty would be good as it makes it easier to take the pulse and start the chrono.

My preference would be to not use the chrono but a central seconds hand. Something like the St. Gallens with a 4-way hand so the most you ever had to wait is 15 seconds before you could start. The advantage for me is not having to fiddle about with the chrono pushers. I don't know if the St. Gallens is patented.

To make one with a minimum of fuss you could use the F1 chrono with the pulsometer tachy on the dial.

I find the dial a bit "busy" trying to fit it all on with the tachy on the dial rather than the bezel. You could move the pulse scale inside the hours, and maybe have 2 scales, one for pulsations and one for respirations. Have a pain black dial and put it on a leather strap. I would be first in line!

Here are the other samples.

On Omega Speedmaster with a pulsometer bezel.


The Ball Pulemeter.


The Omega Museum.


St. Gallen's Rescue watch

[jaz419]

I would definitely prefer a non chrono watch for this, with pulse and resp on the bezel.

It would be nice if there was a movement in which you could start and stop the main second hand with a button, and then return it to zero with a second button. The downside would be that the seconds hand is strictly for counting pulse/resp and doesn't constantly move with the regular time function of the watch. I don't know if anything like that already exists, but it would work nicely for this particular function.

[Thames]

I would definitely prefer a non chrono watch for this, with pulse and resp on the bezel.

It would be nice if there was a movement in which you could start and stop the main second hand with a button, and then return it to zero with a second button. The downside would be that the seconds hand is strictly for counting pulse/resp and doesn't constantly move with the regular time function of the watch. I don't know if anything like that already exists, but it would work nicely for this particular function.

That does exist. my current work watch, a Casio 4755 has that function. the subdial at 6:00 functions as an active second hand, while the large second hand starts, stops, and resets as a chrono function. works great, and is very useful.

[Thames]

I find the dial a bit "busy" trying to fit it all on with the tachy on the dial rather than the bezel. You could move the pulse scale inside the hours, and maybe have 2 scales, one for pulsations and one for respirations. Have a pain black dial and put it on a leather strap. I would be first in line!

St. Gallen's Rescue watch

I like the way the St. Gallen's Rescue watch has the pulse scale starting at 12:00, and the resp scale starting at 6:00. That would certainly reduce the clutter on the face