A 95-year-old dairy farmer living in England lost his Rolex to a greedy cow 50 years ago. The Rolex strap was loose and it must have fallen into the grass while he was working in the field. The family thought the piece of jewelry was lost forever. But with the help of two experts, including a Twitch streamer, the man got his beloved watch back.
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How did he lose the watch?
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Son hires experts to search for old coins on his land
This is how the watch was found: For decades, the missing Rolex became a legend told by the farmer’s children.
James Steele’s son, Andrew Steele, ultimately took over the farm. He decided to have his field searched for old coins because as a child he had discovered a coin from 1789 and had since developed a penchant for such historical artifacts.
Andrew called in a metal hunting expert who had previously found old coins: Liam King.
King searched the field repeatedly over a period of 9 months, but was unable to find any coins. Instead, he found many other things, including the legendary clock that had been abandoned forever.
Cow apparently really ate the watch
The clock was no longer in good condition. It is actually believed that the clock was swallowed by a cow and passed through all four stomachs in the ruminant’s digestive tract, then ended up in the field that was ploughed every three years.
The clock had stopped at 12:40 and had now turned completely green.
The watch was not in good condition:
Dutch Twitch streamer restores the Rolex
What happened to the watch? Andrew, the farmer’s son, brought in another expert: Kalle Slaap, a Dutch specialist in the restoration of mechanical watches and a content creator on Twitch and YouTube.
When the expert heard about the watch, he took it into his workshop in Grootschermer and worked for 2 months on restoring the Rolex. The progress of the repair can be followed on his YouTube channel. The 5th update on the “Rolex that was eaten by a cow” has now been published.
Farms and technology only seem to not go together so well at first glance. In June 2023, we reported on MeinMMO about a story in which a man hid 2,000 computers in a barn, which he then sold on eBay: A man hid 2,200 computers in a barn for 23 years, now he is selling the devices on eBay for 100 euros