Lost watch washes up at Christie’s

A British sailor thought he'd never see the watch he lost in 1988 again – that was until he got a call from Christie's.

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When Philip McColl lost a prized watch in 1998, while skippering a passenger boat off Falmouth, Cornwall, he assumed he had dropped it overboard. After three weeks searching for it underwater, he gave up hope of ever seeing it again. But six weeks ago he got a call from Christie's in Geneva, says The Daily Telegraph. The auction house, according to McColl, wanted to know if he wanted to "negotiate" to buy his watch back from the seller, on the condition he kept the matter quiet. "I know it was stolen now," says McColl. "When it turned up, I was flabbergasted."

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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