108th Auction
2023/5/20
Lot 450
Edward F. Ashley
A London precision pocket watch
Sold
estimated
1.200—2.000 €
Price realized
2.300 €
specific features
Case
18 K gold, polished, monogrammed, case maker punch mark "JA" (James Ayres, Clerkenwell).
Dial
Enamel.
Movement
3/4 plate movement, English lever escapement, gold screw compensation balance, freesprung blued balance spring.
Case no.04719
Diam.50 mm
Circa1897
Ctry.England
Wt.112 g
Edward F. Ashley was born in 1835 and worked as a watchmaker in Clerkenwell, London, between 1878 and 1913. Both his grandfather and father were watchmakers.
This watch is illustrated and described in: Sammler Journal, issue 11/2002, p. 56ff.