British Farmer's Rolex Watch Eaten by Cow in 1970 Recovered After 50 Years
In an incredible twist of fate, a Rolex wristwatch lost for half a century has been recovered by a metal detectorist. The remarkable story begins with 95-year-old James Steele, a lifelong dairy farmer from Morda, Oswestry, Shropshire, who lost his cherished Rolex Oyster Perpetual Air King in the early 1970s. Steele vividly recalls the day he misplaced his watch. It was a typical day on the farm, and he was tending to his herd in the cow field. At some point during his work, the watch slipped off his wrist and vanished. Despite his best efforts to locate it, he was unsuccessful. Steele speculated that one of his cows had inadvertently swallowed the timepiece, given the thorough searches he conducted across the field to no avail. Fast forward to this month, when Liam King, a metal detectorist, made an unexpected discovery. Buried in the mud, the long-lost Rolex was finally unearthed. King’s find has been hailed as a stroke of extraordinary luck, bringing closure to...
