Reviving a WWII Vertex/Revue A.T.P. purchased by the British army.

In the 1930’s the ministry of defence decided it would be a good idea to set a standard for any new wrist watch that was to be supplied to the army. A.T.P. stands for Army Trade Patern. This would do away with pocket watches and home made trench watches used in the first great war. From what I understand the movements needed a minimum level of accuracy +-30 seconds, have 15 jewels or more, fixed spring bars, be water resistant and have a easy to read white dial with luminous markers and hands. Most of these watches have the white/cream dials, but some exceptions are black. By 1938 the first batch of watches were delivered to the British armed forces. By the end of the war over 133.000 had been delivered. The following brands supplied these watches: Buren, Cortebert, Cyma, Ebel, Enicar, Eterna, Font, Grana, Lemania, Leonidas, Moeris, Reconvillier, Record, Revue, Rotary, Timor, and Unitas.  Ebel, Revue/Vertex and Timor. Wyler also supplied some watches, but they are all irregular as they have no fixed bars and different dial design. Probably as a result shortages of the regular A.T.P. watches. All A.T.P. watches were decommissioned in 1957 when MOD made it mandatory with W10 watches. Some were engraved Bravingtons and sold off in army surplus sales others “borrowed never to be retuned” and most destroyed. A.T.P watches are relatively affordable as the smaller size makes them less desirable than the later WWW series, ironically the A.T.P. watches most definetly saw combat through WWII unlike most of the WWW watches delivered in 1945.

In 1931 Vertex started collaborating with Revue, assembling revue movements in their Hatton Garden factory. So new Revue watches were then sold as Vertex in the UK. I’m therefore unsure if  the A.T.P. watch was supplied by Vertex or Revue as they are unmarked and have the Revue calibre 57-59 movements. The next generation army watches designated W.W.W. (Wrist, watch, waterproof) also had a Revue calibre 59 issue, but now signed Vertex on the movement and dial.