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MTF
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St Gallen Rescue watch at British Museum: PuristS' cousins

Some horology buffs and most PuristS will be aware that the PuristSPro All-Black Rescue watch (PPro ABR) is a 178-piece limited edition that is worn with pride as a PuristS' "club watch".  It is a customised derivative with 31 modifications from the original St Gallen Rescue – the first of the 'Disinfectible' wristwatches.

I was pleasantly surprised to find the following entry in the British Museum collection (Europe section):

Description
St. Gallen automatic 'disinfectable' wrist-watch.
Automatic wrist-watch with Swiss club-tooth lever and escapement.
Black square-pattern dial with dots at the hours and arrow-heads at 12 and 6 o'clock. An inner circle for 24 hours numbered 13,14,16,17,19, 20, 22, 23. The seconds circle coloured dark green between 9 and 15 seconds and light green between 45 and 55 seconds. White-painted baton hour and minute-hands. Cross-pattern centre seconds hand with arrow-head pointers, three green-painted and one red. Around the bezel calibrations 50-180 for pulsation and 11-60 for respiration. Grey-coloured silicone rubber wrist-strap.

Inscriptions
Inscription Type: inscription
Inscription Position: dial
Inscription Content: St Gallen
Rescue Automatic

Dimensions
Diameter: 42.1 millimetres (watch)
Thickness: 11.5 millimetres (watch)
Length: 260.5 millimetres (overall length)

Curator's comments
An early version of the 'Disinfectable' made in the early stages of development of the watch, presented by Stuart McDouall, a close friend of Ashley Lung, consultant to St. Gallen.

I guess that with recent outbreaks of SARS and H1N1 influenza, the historical significance of a disinfectible wristwatch needs to be documented.

I wonder if the PPro ABR watch will ever achieve similar academic significance when they uncover the mythical "Cult of The PuristS" from the sands of time, in a thousand years? 

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MTF 

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