This is my current collection of ATP watches, which were issued to the British Military in WWII since 1939. While I have many models, there are still a few missing (although I also still have a few with my watchmakers).
The ATP (Army Trade Pattern) is the true British Military watch of WWII. These were supplied to the British forces through a MoD contact with Swiss watch manufacturers in 1939. The more famous WWW wasn’t issued until 1943. There were 17 suppliers of ATP watches: Buren, Cortebert, Cyma, Ebel, Enicar, Eterna, Font, Grana, Lemania, Leonidas, Moeris, Reconvillier, Record, Revue, Rotary, Timor, and Unitas. Ebel, Revue and Timor each produced two types of watches, so in total there are about 20 watches in the ATP series. At least 133,600 ATP watches were manufactured. After WWII they were meant to be destroyed, but many were decommissioned and sold on by Bravingtons, a London based jeweler.
All ATP's were contracted to have the following specifications: Swiss manual wind subsecond 15 jewel lever movements without shock protection, silver/white dial with railroad track chapter ring and luminous hour markers and luminous hands (some with black dial). All dials have the same hour and minute track, but different methods of lume markings. Screw-back waterproof case with fixed bars. Some are stamped ATP, while others are engraved. usually plated base metal cases. Serial numbers were usually (not always) engraved on the caseback. Some exceptions happened though, as two manufacturers supplied watches with spring bars, and others used 17 jewel movements, and one manufacturer used shock-protected movements in later models.
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