The various ATP watches are shown individually below on A.F.0210. The strap fitted quickly and easily under the fixed bars of the ATP watch. ATP watches on AF0210 straps have recently sold on ebay with an approximate strap value of over $400. The hard to find Reconvilier ATP watch on an original WWII period AF0210 canvas strap. The 44 pattern webbing was designed and issued for tropical conditions, and the AF0210 strap was issued in 1945 as part of this Jungle Warfare Equipment.īelow is a rare combination. Leather straps often perished in tropical conditions and canvas straps were used, particularly in Asia and the Pacific.
and an issue number, although the issue number was sometimes missing. The engraving on the case back was generally the pheon, together with A.T.P.
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They were then fitted by the MoD with open ended leather straps with folded metal butterfly clips as seen on the Grana ATP below. The watches were supplied to the MoD without straps. The MWR forum user Bobsy has listed ATP sales in the past 4 years, which gives some idea of availability of the 20 watch types. Many ATP watches are engraved Bravingtons, indicating they were decomissioned stock.Ī few have replacement dials, either sterile or signed, and Armand and GMT are such signed examples. The ATP watch was deleted from the stores list by an amendment dated February 3, 1957, when the W10 watch designation was introduced.ĪTP decommission advertisement. After WWll they were meant to be destroyed but many were decommissioned, and some continued in service. The subseconds dials and hands varied more.ġ33,600 ATP watches were manufactured at an average price of £3. On the dials only the Buren had a single sided railroad chapter ring, and only the Ebel (poire squelette) and Reconvilier (Dauphine) hands varied. They all were to have fixed bars between lugs. 7471.ġ5 jewelled movement with a round waterproof case about 31mm diameter in stainless steel or nickel chrome, white dial with railroad track chapter ring marked in minutes, luminous index spots, and broad lumed baton hands and a silvered subsidiary seconds register, with an accuracy +/- 30 seconds per day. Ebel, Revue and Timor produced 2 types of watch, so about 20 watch types were in the ATP series. Leading into WWII the ATP watch was issued to soldiers and was supplied to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) by 17 Swiss suppliers, under brand names Buren, Cortebert, Cyma, Ebel, Enicar, Eterna, Font, Grana, Lemania, Leonidas, Moeris, Reconvillier, Record, Revue, Rotary, Timor, and Unitas. Some of these corresponding D-H watches are discussed below. In an effort to demonstrate neutrality, the Swiss supplied almost identical watches to Germany, but with black dials.
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The Army Trade Pattern (ATP) series of watches was made available at the commencement of WWll via a MoD contract with Swiss watch manufacturers in 1939. 17 manufacturers, and 20 case and movement types. In alphabetical order, Buren, Cortebert, Cyma, Ebel (2 case types), Enicar, Eterna, Fontainemelon, Grana, Lemania (central seconds and sub seconds), Leonidas, Moeris, Reconvilier, Record, Revue (Cal 57 and Cal 59), Rotary, Timor, Unitas.
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