A son became emotional on the Antiques Roadshow tonight as he discovered how much his late father's Rolex watch was worth.
Expert Richard Price said the watch was a Rolex Submariner and was introduced in 1967 and it had the word submariner written in red, which is why collectors today call it the red submariner.
Richard said: "Ten years later all that writing was all in white, when did you get this?"
The owner explained that it was his father's watch and said: "He bought it for himself in 1972, when I was 7 and the whole family went to Birmingham to buy it.
"My dad died in October and he gave it to me a couple of months before he passed away, it means absolutely everything to me, it's a part of my dad that is.
"It's a very, very special watch that and will be forever."
Expert Richard explained a bit more about the watch's history and said it was a "lovely watch" and that the original invoice showed it had been bought for £132.
The watch had two additional straps which had been kept, which were "worth a chunk of money on their own anyway".
Richard said: I hope you guys are going to be really pleased with this, it's going to be around the £20,000 mark."
The son was speechless and held back tears as he nodded when Richard asked him: "Are you happy with that?"
Richard said: "It's something that you've obviously loved and you're going to keep forever aren't you."
The son nodded and said: "Yeah."
Richard said: "I think it's a lovely story and a great inheritance" as the son tearfully replied: "Thank you."
*Antiques Roadshow continues at 7pm on BBC1 next Sunday
