A watch worth around half a million kroner has been littering since New Year’s Day with the police, who are now looking for its owner.
– We have done what we can to find the owner, but will no longer, says police spokesperson Mats Eriksson.
It is about an Audemars Piguet watch that was found on New Year’s Day by a person on a street in the middle of central Stockholm.
– The value of this particular watch is over half a million. You can buy a watch like this for 2.6 million. It’s about very high values, says Magnus Alensand, group leader at the police area City’s office in Stockholm.
– It is genuine, he states.
No one has contacted the police
Despite the high value, no one has contacted the police about the missing watch. Now the police hope that the rightful owner will get in touch.
– We hope that someone files a loss report so that we can get hold of the person, says Alensand.
Alensand has no theory as to why no one has heard from him. Perhaps the owner did not discover the loss immediately or did not have time to make a report yet? If you recognize your watch, you should be able to state the serial number, receipt or have something that proves ownership.
– There are things on the back of the watch that the owner must be able to tell what they are.
Facts: What happens to lost property?
A found object is a found object that someone has lost or forgotten.
As a finder, you are entitled to a reasonable finder’s fee, which usually amounts to ten percent of the value of the found item. If you want a lost and found property, the police would like to know that already when you report the lost property to the authority.
Finding wages must be paid by the owner. If the owner is not found, you cannot receive a finder’s reward.
You who have found an object can keep it after a certain time. This applies if the owner of the item is not found within three months of the find being reported to the police or if the owner does not pick up the item within one month of being notified of it.
The police can sell lost property belonging to the state. This happens, for example, when neither the owner nor the finder wants the lost property.
Source: The police