When I say tool watch, I mean TOOL watch!

[Wolfsatz]

I had no idea there were so many of these pulsometer watches. Interesting.

Speidel has a whole line for it

[The Sultan of SoWhat]

Here's a tool watch from 1953:

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[HonestWatchReviews]

The Tim Ralston Recon 6

“Compass, Signal Mirror, Can Opener, Fire Starter, Whistle, Cutting Tool, Fishing, Flash Light”

Now that's what I call a tool watch.

[TheJohnP]

Ball makes a few models with built in thermometers with their Ball TMT movement. It uses a spiral bimetallic thermometer to measure temperature with far more accuracy than temperature modules used in past watches.

Always curious how those may or may not be affected by the general body heat through the wrist.

Example is the Engineer III Endurance 1917 TMT (Celsius)

[Split-Time]

Ball makes a few models with built in thermometers with their Ball TMT movement. It uses a spiral bimetallic thermometer to measure temperature with far more accuracy than temperature modules used in past watches.

Always curious how those may or may not be affected by the general body heat through the wrist.

Example is the Engineer III Endurance 1917 TMT (Celsius)

That is really cool. I would also be interested to see how accurate if is while being worn. Speaking of cool...do you know what is not too cool? That one o'clock date .

[The Sultan of SoWhat]

Tool watch from 1953:

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[The Sultan of SoWhat]

Alpha tool watch

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[The Sultan of SoWhat]

!954 Tool Watch

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[The Sultan of SoWhat]

Abercrombie & Fitch (not the present incarnation!) had a number of tool watches. Here's another--from 1955:

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