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An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned after being given a warning over the whopping valuation he received for his gold watch. Expert Richard Price, Fiona Bruce and the rest of the team were at the Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District for a recently aired episode of the BBC show. The expert began: "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." Explaining the watch's origin, the guest said: "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.



" 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 it was given to you?" The guest revealed the previous owner "demonstrated there was a chime" but he wasn't entirely sure what the sound meant and whether the watch would be able to chime again.

Richard continued: "Firstly, it's signed by a Swiss mechanical Lucien Dubois and it has three squares – one is to set the hands and then it has the normal waiting in the direction of the arrow and then it has a third winding square which will be for an independent seconds. "The top of this watch has a knurled pendant as if it was a keyless waiting w.

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