Theodore Roosevelt's pocket watch was stolen in 1987. It's finally back at his NY home

These photos, provided by the National Parks Service, show Theodore Roosevelt 's favorite pocket watch that was stolen in July 1987 while on display in Buffalo, NY. The watch turned up at an auction house and was returned this week to the Sagamore Hill national historic site in New York.

Growing up, he said he didn't know about the watch and only learned about it vaguely after it was stolen. He called it “unremarkable” in appearance, but priceless to his great grandfather. The watch, made by the now-defunct Waltham Watch Co. in Massachusetts, appears like many pocket watches of its day, with a plain silver exterior and no etchings. But the inside reveals its significance, with engraving that says “THEODORE ROOSEVELT” and “FROM D.R. & C.R.R.,” referring to Roosevelt's brother-in-law and sister, Douglas Robinson Jr. and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.

One day, the picker never showed up to retrieve the watch, and the collector found out that he had died, Bailey said.

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