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Brand
Penrose & Platt
Watches
- Origin
- Birmingham, field and pilot watches since 1919
- Profile
- British military and field watch tradition: small to medium sizes, very legible, NATO straps.
- Design
- Arabic numerals, railway tracks, aged lume
- Who it is for
- People who like history, slim wrists
- Materials
- Steel, bronze, hand-wound and automatic
Products (14)
Penrose & Platt Airfield Chronograph 40
Airfield chronograph with three counters and a domed crystal.
Three subdials for seconds, minutes and up to twelve hours: enough for long ferry flights. The pushers are broad and round, the case flank finely brushed.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Navigator
- Price
- €3,200
Penrose & Platt Clearance Diver 40
Military dive watch with sword hands and fixed spring bars.
Modelled on watches for mine clearance divers: fixed bars so the strap cannot tear off, sword hands you cannot mix up. The caseback has room for your own service number.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Diver
- Price
- €1,990
Penrose & Platt Deck Watch 42
Large hand-wound watch in the style of a ship's deck watch.
Deck watches were carried from the chart room on deck to time a sextant sight. This watch takes the white dial and large numerals, but on the wrist.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Navigator
- Price
- €2,650
Penrose & Platt Despatch GMT 40
Courier GMT with a white dial and red 24-hour hand.
Named after the couriers who carried papers between embassies. Home time on the flange, local time large; white dials were unusual for uniform watches, so the model also comes in black.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Navigator
- Price
- €2,400
- Versions
- White and Black
Penrose & Platt Field 36
Classic hand-wound field watch in 36 mm.
White 12-hour dial, an inner 24-hour ring, a railway track outside: the field watch formula since the First World War. Fits slim wrists too.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Field
- Price
- €1,290–€1,340
- Versions
- White, textile strap and Black, leather strap
Penrose & Platt General Service 36
Small service watch with hand winding and small seconds.
A watch as issued to soldiers in the 1940s: 36 mm, small seconds, black dial, nothing superfluous. Today simply an honest everyday watch.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Field
- Price
- €1,350
Penrose & Platt Harbourmaster 40
Harbour watch with a tide indicator for ebb and flow.
A small hand follows the lunar rhythm of the tides: set to high water once at your harbour, it shows fairly accurately for days when ebb and flood come. For sailors and beach walkers.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Diver
- Price
- €2,300
Penrose & Platt Mk. II Bronze 39
Bronze watch with aged lume that ages with its wearer.
Bronze tarnishes, spots and darkens; anyone who wants it shiny polishes it with lemon. After a year the case looks different on every wearer.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Mk. II
- Price
- €1,890
- Versions
- Green and Brown
Penrose & Platt Monopusher 38
Single-pusher chronograph with hand winding, 38 mm.
Like the chronographs of British pilots in the 1940s: one pusher at two, pulsometer, hand winding. More affordable than the Aurelle, but without a column wheel.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Monopusher
- Price
- €3,400
Penrose & Platt Observatory 39
Regulator watch with separate hours, minutes and seconds.
Observatories and watchmakers' workshops had regulator clocks where only the minute hand runs in the centre. You read the minute without confusion; the hour sits small at the top.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Heritage
- Price
- €2,800
Penrose & Platt Reveille 39
Mechanical automatic alarm in the style of officers' watches.
A mechanical alarm wound by the rotor: the alarm spring tensions as you wear it. At the set time a small hammer buzzes against the case, loud enough for a tent.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Heritage
- Price
- €3,400
Penrose & Platt Sapper 38
Rugged quartz field watch for sappers, with large lume.
The brand's most affordable watch, meant as a tool: quartz, screw-down crown, a strap you can put in the washing machine. The caseback records the date of the last battery change.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Field
- Price
- €590
Penrose & Platt Wire Lug 36
Watch with wire lugs like the first wristwatches of 1918.
The first wristwatches were converted pocket watches with soldered wire lugs. This one quotes them: red twelve, cathedral hands, acrylic crystal, a strap threaded through the lugs.
- Category
- Watches
- Collection
- Heritage
- Price
- €1,490
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