Description
Luch “Medicine” Soviet mechanical watch with pulse scale
MADE IN USSR!
A Soviet doctor’s watch with a working pulse scale: count 15 heartbeats and the seconds hand points to the pulse in beats per minute – about a quarter of the time a full-minute count takes.
The champagne dial carries two pulse scales – one read from 12, the other from 6 – each marked “ЧАСТОТА ПУЛЬСА ПО 15 УДАРАМ” (pulse rate over 15 beats) and reading from 35 to 160 beats per minute, with a bowl-and-snake emblem of medicine below the centre. The dial is signed “Луч”, “23 КАМНЯ” (23 jewels) and “СДЕЛАНО В СССР” (made in the USSR).
Made at the Luch watch factory in Minsk, USSR.
The movement is the slim Soviet calibre 2209 – hand-wound, with 23 jewels, so no battery is needed.
CASE SIZE 42mm x 37mm (with crown)
THICKNESS 8mm
TYPE Mechanical
MOVEMENT 2209
FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds, pulse scale (15 beats)
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time*.
*Note: fitted with a new (replacement) dial, so technically it is not fully original – therefore in the custom builds category
Comes complete with a new Nagata leather strap.
Watches like this were made for doctors and nurses.
HOW TO TAKE A PULSE WITH THIS WATCH
1. Feel for the pulse at the wrist and wait for the seconds hand to reach 12 or 6 – the dial has a scale for each.
2. Start counting heartbeats as the hand passes that mark.
3. Stop on the 15th beat and read the number under the seconds hand on the scale you started from – that is the pulse in beats per minute.
Counting 15 beats takes about 15 seconds at a resting pulse, so there is no need to count for a full minute. Example: start at 12, and if the 15th beat lands as the hand reaches 3, the scale reads 60.
This watch ships from 🇺🇦 Ukraine with tracking number
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About the watch factory
The factory was also making the watches for Soviet Zhiguli «Жигули» car.
