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He took the expert by surprise. An Antiques Roadshow guest was taken aback when the show's expert Richard Price delivered a warning to them over the valuation of their item. In a recent episode, the Antiques Roadshow team travelled to the Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District, where a guest presented Price with a beautiful looking gold watch.

"Well a very, very beautiful, engraved watch on both sides so it's what we call a hunting case watch," Price began. "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 expert then asked the guest and their partner how they came across the shiny timepiece.



"It was a gift by a Spanish lady, a friend to the family," she explained. "One day she said, 'I got no one to leave it to. You have it.

" Richard replied: "Well, what a lucky couple you are. Absolutely typical for the Spanish market, beautiful dials, it's 18 karat gold, dating from the 1860s. Now, do you remember anything special about this watch when.

.. Ryan Price.

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