Featured How Can a Watch Worth $100 in 1841 be Worth 250k Today?

What does OFAH stand for? I don't recognize either of the actors.

 

Good Question! Not A Clue here

 

Found it. "Only Fools and Horses"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Fools_and_Horses

 

WOW!, long running show there, is glad they finally got rich from the watch!

 

LOL, I can see why this went on for so long, Del & Rodney had it goin on! they were genuinely funny! Unlike the comics today, at least here in the States where comedy has been corrupted by politics.

 

I pause now to post a recent clock sale that sold in June at Bonham's London that reached 2.5 million USD, YIKES!

Reposted from Jack Plane's Blog:

A table clock, known as the ‘Q (queen) Clock’, made for Queen Mary II by English master clockmaker Thomas Tompion sold for £1,935,063 (AU$3,561,195.85/US$ 2,454,836.67) at Bonham’s The Clive Collection of Exceptional Clocks sale in London yesterday, Wednesday the 19th of June.

Silver-mounted, quarter-repeating miniature table clock by Thomas Tompion, circa 1693. (Bonham’s)

Regarded as the Father of English Clock Making, Thomas Tompion (1639-1713) created some of the finest clocks ever made. The silver-mounted, quarter-repeating miniature table ‘Q clock’ was made in 1693 along with a ‘K Clock’ Tompion made for Mary’s husband, King William III.

 

lol, that was a good one

 

looks like it was made yesterday, quite amazing to still be around all these years

 

Yeah, does! Well, it WAS/IS the Queens clock so i am guessing it has been well looked after all these years. I wonder why it was for sale? Surely the royal family doesn't need the money. Link to auction
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25730/lot/103/

 

Interesting provenance (case and movement separated, but reunited 100+ years later), as I read it, hasn't been the Queen's Clock since 1949.

 

Great "punch" line!

 

Yeah, I saw that, maybe a post war charity event type thing?

 

Reading the Bonham's press release: "The clock may have passed out of royal hands as early as 1694, the year of Queen Mary's death, or on the death of the King in 1702. Officers of the royal households were unpaid, and were by custom entitled to a share of the furnishings of royal palaces on the death of the sovereign."

Evidently, the 1949 sale was by the great-grandson of someone who bought the case "in France."

Charity shop, no doubt.

 

Ah Ha! That makes more sense! Figured there had to be an explanation for something that old, 1694, that valuable, 2.5 mil and built by the "Father" of english clocks.

lol, uhhhhhhhh, nooooooooooo