Precious Time: The James Walter Scott Watch, 1862-3

Pocket Watch
James Stock, 1862-3
The Victoria & Albert Museum

This stunning gold watch is engraved and enameled, and inscribed on the movement “Manufactured by B. Lawley, London, for W.C.Shaw, Glasgow.”  The casemaker's mark reads “JWS” for James Walter Stock, Clerkenwell.  Hallmarks for London are stamped, “1862-3.”