Antiques Roadshow guest faints after finding out how much £277 item was valued

08/26/2023

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A guest on the US version of Antiques Roadshow fell to the floor after finding out how much his Rolex watch was now worth.

A man appeared on the TV show and bought a Rolex watch over 40-years-ago through mail order for $345.97 (£277).

He shared how the watch was extremely good for scuba diving, which is why he purchased it, but the guest never took the watch out of its box and kept it along with its original paperwork and reference number.

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Auctioneer Peter Planes was able to use the reference number to date the item, revealing to the guest how rare his item truly was.

"Your watch is more special, it says Oyster on it," Peter said, "They did that for an extremely short period of time. We refer to that as a mark two dial. This particular model, being marked Oyster is extremely, extremely rare."

The item visibly impressed Peter, revealing to the flabbergasted guest that "a watch like this, at auction, is worth about. $400,000 (£317,000)."

The guest was in complete shock but kept a playful stillness, pretending to faint on the floor, throwing his legs in the air as he did so, which left equally stunned onlookers laughing.

"Don't fall, I'm not done yet," Peter said playing along after he asked the guest if he was okay.

The guest said that the watch was never worn, and Peter let him know that the watch just increased in price when he said that.

With that new piece of information, Peter let the guest know that the Rolex watch could be worth anywhere from $500,000 (£397,000) to $700,000 (£555,000).

The jaw-dropping reveal left the man and viewers more stunned than before.

This isn't the first time that a watch has gone for insane amounts of money on Antiques Roadshow. In 2004, a Patek Phillipe watch was valued at $1.5m (£1.19m).

The watch's owner, Robert, had obtained it because it was passed down for generations through his family.

"This watch was handed down from my great-grandfather," he said, "It was handed down from him to my father, and then he gave it to me."

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