Antiques Roadshow fans fume over valuable watchs | TV Shows

Fans of Antiques Roadshow are fuming that a valuable watch’s up to date appraisal, a decade after its first, is still too low.

The hit PBS show took to their Instagram on Sept. 17 to share a clip of the appraisal of a Longines Aviator’s watch from 1938, which appeared during a stop in San Jose, CA, in 2009.

The beloved show, which sparked a heat debate among fans with an earlier post, captioned the clip with, “Updated ANTIQUES ROADSHOW appraisals take flight in San Jose! Check out this sneak peek of ‘Vintage San Jose, Hour 2,’ premiering Monday at 8/7c on @PBS and the PBS app.”

The second noticed a visitor deliver the watch in for Craig Evan Small of Craig Evan Small Estate Jewelry to appraise.

The visitor explained that his father is a retired doctor, who had many years of apply in Manhattan and “has had a great love for watches and clocks for all his life.”

The man’s father used to often go to a pawnshop to see what was obtainable and picked the watch up at a pawnshop on Third Avenue.

Small requested if he knew when his father purchased the watch, to which he replied, “My best guess is about 30 years ago. I think it’s an aviator watch. This watch was designed by Charles Lindbergh after he flew across the Atlantic, and he worked with Longines to make an aviator’s watch.”

Small requested if the visitor understood why the watch was large. He responded, “Because of dim lights in the cockpit?”

The skilled explained, “Well, in the 1930s, when this watch was made and used, there was no pressurization to planes. So you would wear them on the outside of a jacket. It was cold.

“There was no pressurized aircraft, so it was very, very freezing cold in these planes. So they might put on layers of garments. They would possibly put on a jacket under a sweater and vest.

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“Most of the time these came with big straps. They would put it here or over here so you could look at it as you were flying. They did make a few different versions of this watch.

“This might be the most valuable model. It’s the biggest model they made. It’s made strictly for flight. There was other smaller variations that got here out.

“They made this watch from mid-’30s till probably around the war years in the ’40s. Do you have any idea what he paid for it?”

The visitor replied that his father paid no more than $100, 30 years in the past. Small then dropped his valuation of the watch, “A watch like this on the retail market today probably would run around $12,000. It’s a pretty rare watch.”

He added, “There aren’t many of them around. This is one of the first ones I’ve seen in the last five or ten years. It’s really a great pleasure to have this great watch here.” The visitor, who was visibly shocked, said his father could be happy.

Small concluded, “When I started in business, everything was the size of a quarter, and now it’s come full circle. Big watches are really, really in.”

However, in the feedback part of the post about the second, fans could not consider that the watch was appraised for what they deemed as a low quantity.

One individual wrote, “Wait just a SECOND, only 12k?? The MINUTE he appraised it at that price, ‘time stood still’ for me! I was expecting more.” Another replied, “we all were.”

A 3rd added, “that was 2009! Watch until the end,” to which a fourth said, “still too low.”

A fifth identified, “12K my A– this goes all the way up to at least 100K in a reputable auctioneer.”

Yet another fumed, “I agree. I would pay more and I’m not a watch collector.”