What's up with this watch? [Asprey]

Hello!

My buddy got this manual-wind watch from his uncle when he passed away, and ordinarily I wouldn't think this was much more than a fancy jewelry store cladding an off-the-shelf movement in a gold case. The uncle, however, had pretty good taste in watches, and owned some pretty cool pieces—a wonderful Connie among them. And though I'm not a fan of the numerals on this watch, the hands are pretty neat, the dial is nicely turned, and the image on the back is straight-up awesome.

I know Asprey had a habit signing and white-labeling stuff, but that's the extent of my knowledge (about anything, really). I did a cursory forum search and checked out the usual for-sale sites, and found nothing like this watch at all. I was wondering if anybody here had an idea of when this watch is from and/or whose movement might be inside it.

It's not for sale or anything, just curious.

Thanks—and apologies for the crap photos. It was Cinco de Mayo, and I was more than a few margaritas deep.
J

I spent a few minutes Google image searching, and couldn't find a match. The closest was this https://www.europeanwatch.com/15048.html However, it's got a date, centre seconds and is steel. Unless someone else comes by with better info, perhaps the best idea would be to take some more/better pictures and fire off an email to Aspreys to ask them directly. Their website has a form for contact that does not seem to accept attachments, so this might be an option [email protected]

Hope you find the information you are looking for.

Beautiful watch

There should be UK hallmarks on the case (probably on the inside). Usually that will included a stamped letter that gives the year of manufacture.

I think that's rather lovely(has the look of a Sewills), are those gold spring bars too? That NATO does this watch no justice at all, and seeing the stainless hardware rubbing up against the 18ct gold case... 😲

Too me, more like the NATO rubbing on that engraving...