The two tone dial has aged honestly and has developed a cracking patina throughout
when the RN/RM watches were returned to stores or were broken
- Superb Original Dial with Pumpkin Lume
Powering them would be 15-jewel movements
The deliberate omission of luminous material was a critical tactical requirement for onboard use on nuclear submarines
Timor ATP Reissued 6E/385 RAF Mountain Rescue c.1943 watch The two tone dial hasThe Watch . Introduced in 1939 just before the outbreak of WW2, the Army Trade Pattern (ATP) Wristwatches were the first official, general purpose field watches commissioned by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD). To fulfill this massive wartime contract, the MoD sourced roughly 133,000 timepieces from 17 Swiss manufacturers: Buren, Cortebert, Cyma, Ebel, Enicar, Eterna, Font, Grana, Lemania, Leonidas, Moeris, Reconvilier, Record, Revue, Rotary,