More than 80% of all surplus timepieces sold directly after the Second World War are pocket watches. For the purpose of price control, pocket watches are divided into two categories according to whether there are luminous marks on their dials.
To date, the most abundant type of pocket watch is...
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. In an effort to demonstrate neutrality, the Swiss supplied almost identical watches to Germany, but with black dials. Some of these...