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Can Apple watch be programmed to call relative in case of hard fall / unresponsiveness like this?

I have elderly father in Eastern Europe and he would really benefit from this.

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> Can Apple watch be programmed to call relative in case of hard fall / unresponsiveness like this?

Yes.

> After the call ends, your watch sends a message to your emergency contacts with your location letting them know that your watch detected a hard fall and dialed emergency services. [0]

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208944

I have a bicycle light that does this also.

https://seesense.cc/

From the article:

> The Apple Watch also alerted Gabe Burdett that his dad had fallen.

It looks like it also sent a text to his son.

Also does Apple Watch require ownership of iPhone?

Ownership, yes.

Physical presence, not completely: https://www.apple.com/watch/cellular/

As I mention above, the way I did this was to buy a low-cost/locked/unactivated iPhone 6s and paired the watch to it. It thus provides in-home monitoring of such events; I can confirm that it works well since it got inadvertently activated a couple of times (the first watchOS version with this feature seemed to be prone to false positives) and I had to talk to the emergency agent on her behalf to state that everything was ok for now.

Can I have one iPhone (in USA) and two watches - one in USA (me), another in Europe with my dad attached to local European SIM card to call local European number if he falls?

I don't think so unfortunately - the cellular watches are weird in that they must be on the same cellular network as the associated iphone. The recipe I suggested above works with the non-cellular version of the watch and counts on being on the same wireless network as the phone. So imo, you will need one iphone per watch. However, I have been able to get refurbished iphone 6s devices for as little as $60; you probably don't want anything older than 6s as it is the oldest device that can still run iOS 13 and thus future proof for just a little bit.

And iPhone SE ? Mine runs 13.1

You are right - that should work well as well I believe due to its 6s internals. It's a good idea too: in the US the SE can be found even cheaper than the 6s.

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