It’s an incredible story that a watchmaker from Boumerdès, near Algiers, told on social networks.
The video is widely shared and commented on on TikTok. It’s the story of an old lady who came to have two seemingly ordinary watches repaired…
« This watch, I heard about it and I never imagined that one day I would hold it in my hands », says the young watchmaker.
Having knowledge in the world of watches, he couldn’t believe it when this object reached him. To be sure, he checked and rechecked.
It all started when a lady around 75 years old brought him two old watches to repair.
Seeing that these are old models, he told her that he could not do anything for her, explaining to her that the parts necessary for their repair are no longer manufactured today.
All that remained for the owner of the two objects was to get rid of them.
Naively, the lady offers to take the two watches for free, which are therefore useless, to collect parts for future repairs.
« That’s when I understood that she doesn’t know the value of her watches “, he said.
An old lady wanted to get rid of her 30,000 euro watch
Where many might have taken advantage of the situation, the young watchmaker says he told the lady everything about the value of his watches, particularly one of them.
A real fortune. It is in fact an antique made of yellow metal.
According to him, it is a very rare piece, manufactured between 1900 and 1910 in a limited series of only 90 copies.
In addition, it is made entirely of solid gold, finely chiseled.
Its real value? “ 30,000 euros minimum (more than 6 million dinars at parallel exchange) “, he says, explaining that it is not only the metal that makes it valuable, but above all the rarity of such an antique.
When she learned all this, the lady’s reaction was even more astonishing.
She asked the watchmaker, who began filming the watch in front of her, to blur certain details so that her children would not recognize it.
The author of the video did not specify whether the owner decided to keep or sell her jewelry.
video/7315572983685188870" data-video-id="7315572983685188870">@kader_mozas.48 An old Algerian woman goes to a watch seller to repair her watch, and the watch seller is surprised by her watch being made of gold, and their price in the Algerian currency ranges from 600 million centimes, and she does not know????#Relizane_Oran_Mostaganem_Balabbas_Tlemcen ♬ original sound – Kader Mozas
2024-01-19 03:09:15
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