Got this in the post, pictures are from the seller.
Watch was working only when face up, dirty as heck and has no crystal. Inside the inner dust cover are 13 service marks from various watch men, signs of a well-loved piece.
I stripped it down, and cleaned the dial. As I thought, it came up pretty well with only one almost invisible hairline crack running from just below the R in "Lawrence" to just below the "10" in the sub dial.
The hands were rusty, and I gave them the biz with some wet & dry paper, and attached (temporarily until a new one that fits can be found) a piece off an old seconds hand to the broken one fitted.
I then stripped down the movement and pegged, cleaned and lubricated the jewels and pivot points, cleaned the ebauche (no name found, just numbers under the dial) and reassembled.
Working fine so far after 4 hours.
Cannot find anything about the "The Turret" name on the movement, but I have seen similar watches from well before the Boer war and WW1 with names in this fashion and I guess it was aimed at the military market.
Here is a trench wristwatch sans lugs with the Turret name in block capitals.
How it looks now, will get a new crystal fitted and find a new sub dial hand.
Here are adverts from similar models with names, aimed at the military man.
The similarity in advertising and use of a name in parentheses seems to back up my thoughts on this watch.
This is from 1893, The "Skirmisher".
And one many of you will have heard of, the Mappin & Webb "Campaign" watch.
A 1908 wrist watch.
The movement in the watch was made by Orion, a manufacturer used by many top brands at the time.
It uses a "moustache" type counterbalance lever, the same as below.
Denotes a higher quality movement, similar counterbalance levers can be found in LeCoultre and other higher quality movements in the 19th.C.
It also employs an unusual hairspring attachment on the cock, this helped in identifying the maker.
Although no watches were worn or carried by order until around 1916-17 in the British military, officers were recommended to carry/wear them though, at least as early as 1910, and maybe even earlier, as seen in this 1910 field service manual, under field kits (at the very bottom).
Cheers for looking.