Antiques Roadshow guest refuses to sell gold watch after expert issues warning over valuation

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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.

guest was taken aback when the show’s expert Richard Price delivered a warning to them over the valuation of their item.team travelled to the Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District, where a guest presented Price with a beautiful looking gold watch.

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?” “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 do the hours, releasing it, and turning it to the right to do the quarters.

However, the expert went on to deliver a warning as he shared the valuation for the unusual treasure.

Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)

 

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