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An Antiques Roadshow guest was left gobsmacked after receiving a hefty valuation for his gold watch.
The episode, which was filmed at the Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District, saw expert Richard Price and host Fiona Bruce examining the beautifully engraved timepiece.
Richard began by saying: "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 guest explained that the watch had been gifted to him by a family friend from Spain who had no one else to leave it to. Responding to this, Richard said: "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 then revealed that the previous owner had shown him that the watch could chime, but he wasn't sure what the sound signified or if the watch could still produce it. Richard went on to explain: "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 watch but we know that it's key wound, so that serves another function.
A very very clever horologist by the name of Joseph Barolos, who worked in London devised a form of quarter repeating, which means that the watch will strike the hours and the quarters, turning it to the left to
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