An Antiques Roadshow guest was gobsmacked after an expert issued an eye-watering £10,000 valuation of his intricate gold watch - but followed it up with a warning.
During a recent episode set at Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District, which featured host Fiona Bruce and the Antiques Roadshow experts, Richard Price took a closer look at a stunning gold watch.
He remarked, "Well a very, very beautiful, engraved watch on both sides so it's what we call a hunting case watch. If it's got a very beautiful dial as well, which it has, look at that lovely silver dial I can say pretty categorically that it is for the Spanish market." The owner shared the backstory of the watch, explaining, "It was a gift by a Spanish lady, a friend to the family, one day she said, 'I got no one to leave it to.
You have it." To which Richard responded, "Well, what a lucky couple you are. Absolutely typical for the Spanish market, beautiful dials, it's 18 karat gold, dating from the 1860s.
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