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Woman Finds Vintage Rolex Worth $250K in Couch Cushions

When most of us start digging through the living-room couch cushions, we're usually hoping to find a few dollars, maybe a lost set of keys and most likely the remote control. For the most part, we’re lucky if why find old, stale chips, pretzels and popcorn along with anything else the kids or pets have left behind. For a woman in Canada, however, the find was worth much more — $250,000.

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According to founder and CEO of Bob’s Watches Paul Altieri, a couch-diving expedition came up with an unbelievable find for a Canadian woman (who wishes to remain anonymous.) The woman was relaxing on a sofa she'd purchased from a secondhand store. Having dropped her phone between the cushions, she immediately started digging in to retrieve it.

When she pulled what she presumed was the phone free of the couch cushions, however, she found herself staring at a vintage Rolex. Turning to her elderly father, the woman asked if it belonged to him, to which he replied that it was absolutely out of his price range. She'd hit the jackpot — if a previous owner couldn't be located, that is.

Luckily for this Canadian lady, the thrift shop where she’d purchased the sofa said that there was absolutely no record of contact information by those who'd donated it. She was in the clear, and the Rolex was hers. It was then that she called Altieri of Bob’s Watches, a world-famous expert on the subject of designer timepieces, specifically Rolex. He sent over an expert to authenticate the Rolex, and the rest is now history.

As it turns out, finders-keepers would net the thrifty shopper in the neighborhood of a cool $250,000; the watch was a Rolex Daytona. The Rolex Daytona design was famously worn by Paul Newman of Cool Hand Luke and Slap Shot fame, and although this particular watch hadn't been owned by the professional driver and actor — one which was sold for a whopping $17.7 million — it is still a much sought after design (Roger Federer remains a loyal fan of the design.)

So what did the extremely fortunate woman do with her windfall? According to Altieri, she planned to “buy a house and get a boob job.” 

Though it might be enticing to stop reading at this point and immediately set out to destroy your own aging couch in the hopes of finding buried treasure, the odds aren't entirely in your favor. Most people's living-room furniture holds pet hair, a few coins, dust and last year's missed Easter egg chocolates — not a vintage Rolex.

Still, a bit of seasonal clean-up couldn't hurt, could it? And you never know what you might find in the process. According to story from five years ago in NPR, a group of college roommates also found a thrift-store couch stuffed with prizes — in this case a whopping $40,000. They, however, were able to find the owner and returned the money.

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