Antiques Roadshow find stuns owner
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A man from Oxfordshire, UK has broken down in tears after bringing his late father’s Rolex in to be evaluated on Antiques Roadshow.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The middle-aged man carried two extra straps and an invoice along with his late dad’s watch which was purchased for $240 in 1972.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He bought it for himself in 1972, when I was seven and me, my mum, my dad and my brother went to Birmingham to buy it,” the man said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When expert Richard Price said the watch was worth around $36,400, leaving the man speechless.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img style="width: 500px; height:281.18811881188117px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7841289/rolex.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/dc25af045b43496082c9bca5a780effe" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It means absolutely everything to me, it’s part of my dad. Very, very special watch that is, and it will be forever,” the man said to his family.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Richard also said that the straps alone were worth a “chunk of money”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His late dad passed on the Rolex to his son a few months before he passed away.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He said, “My dad, he loved this program and he would have loved to see his watch on here but he wouldn’t have cared what it was worth.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fans shared their emotional reactions on Twitter.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The emotion of the guy knowing how much his late father’s Rolex is worth and his son’s face seeing his dad react like that is proper #antiquesroadshow,” one said.</span></p>
