Got Myself A Doughnut And A Tit...

There nothing like a lurid title to pull the reader in. Now this being a family friendly site it's not the quite as the headline seems.

Here's the doughnut

And Here's the Tit

Yep I've got my 1st TITanium watch. The Boldr venture field medic.

And field medic because its got a pulsation and respiration scale so you can do medical things with it....more on that later

Now why did I get it, well unfortunately the back end of last year I spent more time in and around hospitals (3 visits for me personally and numerous visits for others) surgery on my left shoulder, with strict instructions no heavy lifting, loads of time to get bombarded on Facebook with watch adverts and an increasing interest in chronographs, well the stage was set for a purchase. Medic ✅️ lightweight titanium ✅️ chronograph ✅️.

So a lightweight grade 2 titanium case, 38mm width, 12mm thick, 44mm lug to lug, 20mm lug width, flat sapphire crystal with AR coating, 200m WR and powered by a VK64 mecaquartz movement, and on a nylon strap with matching titanium hardware

Nice caseback

And a crown that's awesome

Not the biggest watch, but I don't feel shortchanged by the lack of size it fits nicely on the wrist

It just wears really well, so one that could be worn by most people. Tha lume is ok, it glows all night but there's not a lot of real estate for it to sit on. My biggest concern was legibility in the daytime (tired old eyes) but no its great, so if I can see it you will too.

Sporting the watch with the blue sling of unmoving (post shoulder surgery). And here in a medical setting

Stitches out day 😱, actually not to bad. Now to practicality, well as I wasn't driving for a few weeks, I had to start the car and run the engine every now and then for 25minutes or so

Useful (as long as you didn't forget about it😖) and great when your chum is out playing in the snow

When he's the same colour as the subdials

It's time to come in.

Now you can use it for proper medical uses, there's even instructions on it, so you count the respiration and heartbeats using the chrono, times it by whatever, divide it by.... Nah forget all that, if your ever in that situation unless medically trained your casualty will either be dead or will have recovered and walked away bored. So for us non super duper medics a couple of Stricko's hints (I am a qualified 1st aider and have a certificate to prove it) look at the dial colour, if there the same colour as the main dial, get help it is most likely medical shock (very serious) and if they're the colour of the subdials ie blue it could be hypoxia (lack of oxygen) or very cold (hypothermia), both need help and are killers. Now a little tale about yours truly,day after surgery I (didn't but I did) have to deliver a watch to the pub ( now now I wasn't drinking even I'm not that stupid, Russ behind the bar nearly fainted from shock shock, not the medical kind) so there I was sat there happy as Larry basking in all the sympathy I was receiving. All of a sudden started sweating, felt sick and really really tired. That was it within a couple of minutes I was dial colour (grade 2 titanium as somebody later said). Luckily there was enough people with 1st aid training and not relying on a watch to get me in the recovery position and summon professional help. The outcome 3 bags of saline, a night in hospital covered in stickers and connected up to the machine that goes 'bing' (monty python) 30 over 60 was mentioned which is bad,it felt bad anyway. Luckily nothing permanently wrong and with some (enforced) rest, wife wasn't best pleased to say the least, 7 days confined to the sofa 😔 anyway ive made a full recovery, and as I'm writing this the sling is off and I'm on my way back to full fitness (be a couple of months, but getting there).

You just never know in life, and that brings me the most important point of this piece. The watch is great,modern looking, good functionality, lightweight a great daily wear, but for medical matters better rely on knowledge, and for us non medical professionals you can't beat knowing some 1st aid, plenty of info out there, charities run courses for free, you can get courses through work and if that's too much gen up yourself, through books, online you can even get an app on your phone (along with what 3 words) you don't have to be a brain surgeon, do surgery on the fly (leave that for Hollywood) but you can save a life, even a fellow watchcruncher like me (believe me if you hang with me your gonna need it). So take care of yourselves and your fellow man and get a bit of knowledge and join us in becoming a 1st aider, it's rewarding and you can make the difference.