REVIEW ATP 59. Military watch. Circa: 1940.... Lot 32

REVIEW ATP 59. Military watch. Circa: 1940. Military-style watch with round, screw-down chrome case. Off-white dial without signature. Swiss. Radium bead hour markers. Black Arabic numerals indicating hours and seconds. Steel-colored, radium-luminescent candle-style hands. Fine blued second hand at 6 o'clock. Hand-wound mechanical movement, caliber 59. Vintage brown leather strap. Diameter: 33 mm. Length: 23.5 cm. Rare WWII British-issued Caliber 59 ATP Revue, British Army military markings on case back with MoD (Ministry of Defence) 'Broad Arrow'. Premise of the famous "Dirty Dozen" watches produced for the British armed forces during the Second World War by 12 watch manufacturers. The "ATP"(Army Trade Pattern) watch series was made available at the start of World War II under a Ministry of Defence contract with Swiss suppliers in 1939.Just over 133,000 ATP watches were produced during World War II, and although the watches were supposed to be destroyed at the end of the fighting, many were decommissioned and some continued in use. The Revue 59 is one of the rarest ATPs. ATP watches are considered to be the first British military watches, made available at the start of the Second World War under a 1939 MoD (Ministry of Defense) agreement with 16 Swiss watch manufacturers. Of these 16, Timor, Ebel, Lemania and Revue each produced two variants, often designated by a slight variation in dial, case back or movement. In the case of the Revues, there were two variants, separated only by their movement calibers 59 and 57. REVUE