enzed4 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2017 10:29 pm
Hand it in to the Police station as a found item. At the very least you will get it back (I think after 3 months). Then take it to a watchmaker, get it fixed and serviced (don't think it will take much judging by your description of the faults) and you'll have a nice Aquamaster for little cost. If it's fake, the watchmaker will know as soon as they look at the movement. Looking at the detail of the caseback, it certainly looks either legit, or a very 'good' fake.
DON'T throw it in the rubbish, please. Or, if you want to, send it to me (I'll cover postage)
If its classed as theft, would sending it to you not involve you in a crime?
Joking aside, I really dont think the police will have much luck finding the owner. Looking at prices and the condition of the watch and the fact it needs fixed would anybody actually notify the police that they had lost it? Especially if they remember that they were in someones garden in the middle of the night.
I will contact the police and see what they say. I would quite like to know who was in my garden and what excuse they would give the police. My garden is completely sealed off and access is through a 6ft high wooden gate, you wouldnt just stumble in by accident.
I went to bed around 1.30am and where the watch was found was around 12ft away from where I was sitting on the other side of french doors. It must have happened between then and 9am this morning.