GUEST: I brought in a watch.

It's, uh, made by the Patek Philippe Company.

And I inherited this watch from my dad.

And his whole life, he loved clocks, and timepieces and watches.

And he had many wonderful watches, but this was his pride and joy.

APPRAISER: Wonderful.

Y-you're right, it's Patek Philippe, which is probably the finest company in the world.

They're one of the older watch companies from the 1800s.

They still manufacture today.

In these days, in the 1930s and '40s, they did very small production of watches.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: And when I opened it up and looked at the movement, I can date the watch probably from the late 1930s.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Late 1930s manufactured.

With a nice original, uh, dial, kind of a pink color undertone with the original Patek Philippe box.

And also an unusual Patek Philippe buckle.

Most of the time, these don't come with the watch; somehow they get misplaced.

And it is marked PPC, Patek Philippe Company.

All these things add value and quality to this.

Your, your dad did a great job of keeping this watch and keeping it all original.

GUEST: What, what would you say about the band?

You think it's original?

You think it's replaced?

APPRAISER: It's probably been replaced, I would guess.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: It really is a l-- it should be a little narrower for the buckle and stuff.

It really doesn't fit the buckle super great.

APPRAISER: That's probably why they get replaced, because you can't find the leather straps to fit the buckles, so they've changed the buckles.

This one actually kept the original buckle, which is wonderful.

GUEST: Good.

Yes.

APPRAISER: It adds a lot of value-- collectors love things, little increments like that are fabulous.

No idea what he paid for it originally?

GUEST: The number that seems that I remember that he would, he would mention from maybe from time to time, and again, this is probably early '40s when he got it, I want to say $400.

APPRAISER: Your father probably was young.

He had to have been in what, his 20s or 30s when he did this?

GUEST: Mid-20s, right.

Right.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

Which was a lot of money for someone in those days.

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: Probably on a retail level, in a really nice, fine store, probably around $6,500.

$6,000 to $7,000, somewhere in that price point.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: Yep, yeah.

Very collectible, rare watch.

GUEST: Thank-thank you, wow.

APPRAISER: Yep.

GUEST: I was thinking maybe $3,000, $4,000.

I do wear the watch occasionally.

I will pick a, a special event.

So it doesn't just sit in the box all the time.

APPRAISER: That's good.

GUEST: It is an heirloom, and it will be going to my son someday.