English gold watch with power reserve indication Circa 1885

Gold open faced lever watch by Lund & Blockley
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A heavy English 18K gold open faced lever pocket watch with a 30-hour power reserve indicator, circa 1885.
Plain case with a blue enamelled monogram, case maker’s punch mark AS for Alfred Stram. Signed white enamel dial with Roman hours, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock, power reserve indication at 12 and blued spade hands. Signed, frosted gilt 2/3 plate movement with chain and fusee, English lever escapement, optionally keywind or crown wind, gold screw compensation balance, chatoned diamond endstone on balance.
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Diameter: 53 mm
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Weight: 137 g
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Signed: Lund & Blockley to the Queen London
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The Lund & Blockley company was kind of connected to Barraud, the renowned chronometer makers, or rather their successor Barraud & Lund. Major J.A. Lund of Lund & Blockley was most likely a son of Mr Lund of Barraud & Lund. When this timepiece was made, Major Lund was mainly stationed in Bombay in India, where Lund & Blockley still traded after the end of World War II. The company of the same name at 42 Pall Mall in London was originally led by both men and later by Herbert Blockley, a former star student at the British Horological Institute, on his own. He specialized in expedition watches, where the cases were sealed with cork or leather, the watches also had a protective cap over the winding crown. They were purchased by the dozens by the Royal Geographical Society to be lent out to expedition leaders.