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It works.
The nose pivots, and the saddle moves with you. Which is not what those old saddles did...
Not sure what "it" refers to in "It works." The two halves of the Rogers Perfect Health saddle moved with you, clearly. It's essentially identical to the Easy Seat, or vice versa.
There's another modern version that looks more or less identical to the Rogers saddle: two pivoting rectangles with the front curving down. In the shop where I used to work, we'd sell one; it would be returned within a few days; we'd sell it again; returned again; etc.
The current saddle designs that have noses but also cutouts or troughs are effectively variations of the Christy saddle design. There's another design from the 1890's that looks like a toilet seat. Don't know whether anyone has brought that one back yet, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Mesinger saddle with cutout:
