£21K Rolex found in gutter!

[pincher]

By a street cleaner and, kudos to him, he handed it in.

http://t.co/ROGYsWhc

[Miguel Alvarez]

Slightly off topic but I remember reading about a some guy getting killed somewhere in London and being found with a hig end Cartier on his wrist. I would have thought that would have been one of the first things to be taken.

[deltaevo16]

Just listening to him on R2 he has found another Rolex today, and also found an Omega in the same drain. I want ot know where the drain is Lol.

[pacman1]

deltaevo16 said:

..and also found an Omega in the same drain. I want ot know where the drain is Lol.

Maybe it was where a jewellery thief disposed of them, prefering to keep what he thought was more valuable, or easier to shift on.

[deltaevo16]

My thoughts, but what the heck chucking a 21k Rolex away seems a little daft

[apotek]

The same guy has found more watches in a drain on the same street (radio 5 this afternoon).

[Eighteeteewhy]

apotek said:

The same guy has found more watches in a drain on the same street (radio 5 this afternoon).

Another ROLEX, almost th same as the first. An Omega James Bond and something else worth about £2k.

[Laurel Green]

Has just been on ITV local news (London) apparently one of them was a Franck Muller.

[Mr Beaumont]

I saw a clip on BBC news, they were with him when they found the Franck Muller. I liked how the street cleaner picked it up looked at it and said "oo genuine leather", then the news reported said the watch was a Franck Muller!

[Dominic H]

I could be wrong, but I have my doubts about the Omega SMP, 2col Daytona and the Franck Muller. The gold Daytona looked to be the real deal. Seeing as the find has been on the radio/TV/papers/interweb, the owner must have realised his loss by now. The chances of the watch being unclaimed in 30 days is greatly reduced....

[pacman1]

Dominic H said:

The chances of the watch being unclaimed in 30 days is greatly reduced....

Unless, as someone has suggested, the owner is brown bread.

[EvoSlayer]

just interested to know, what happens if police trace original owner(s) through serial no's etc and they've aleady been reimbursed by insurance and even gone out and bought replacements?

[Dominic H]

EvoSlayer said:

just interested to know, what happens if police trace original owner(s) through serial no's etc and they've aleady been reimbursed by insurance and even gone out and bought replacements?

Then the insurance company would probably claim the watch as theirs and dispose of accordingly.

[EvoSlayer]

Dominic H said:

EvoSlayer said:

just interested to know, what happens if police trace original owner(s) through serial no's etc and they've aleady been reimbursed by insurance and even gone out and bought replacements?

Then the insurance company would probably claim the watch as theirs and dispose of accordingly.

Yeah, thanks...didn't really think that through did I

[Stevemr]

I found a Rolex once on a campsite in Switzerland, late at night in the washrooms. I handed it in to the campsite owners and half thought they might keep it, any way a couple of days later a german guy came knocking on the tent door with a bottle of wine, very grateful, it had been a graduating present from his father.

I was very glad he had got it back, but wish he had bought a crate of lager, not that keen on wine!

[Jaged]

Appologies for the bump.

But I read that the Police have said the gold Rolex was made in Singapore!

Are they made in Sinapore, or did they mean it was purchased in Singapore?

Or are they saying it's not really worth £21k after all??

[Laurel Green]

Or maybe someone has swapped it for one made in Singapore.

[carreauchompeur]

Interesting story.

The "Made in Singapore" angle is also most interesting- Visiting Triad gets bumped off maybe?

[Stu R]

Anyone watching this on BBC Breakfast at the mo?

Bloke who cleans drains for a living found a watch, thinks nothing of it, turns out it's a gold rolex. Hands it in to police, goes back to show the plod where and how he found it, and found 3 more.
After 30 days if they're not reclaimed he gets to keep them - which makes him mental for going on the news before the 30 days is up!

2 rolexs, a franck muller, and an omega. Not sure how £20k worth of watches end up there in a short space of time - chinny chin chin

[Stu R]

Blimey, they've just clarified, the Rolex alone is 21k of solid gold daytona.
It was actually while the beeb were filming he found the other 3.