Dutch watch expert repairs Rolex "eaten by a cow" 50 years ago

A Dutch watchmaker from Grootschermer has taken up the challenge of repairing a Rolex watch lost by a British farmer 50 years ago and thought to have been eaten by a cow. Steel lost the watch in the early 1970s when he “suddenly realised” its bracelet had broken and told reporters that “a cow could have eaten it with a mouthful of grass. “The face has gone greenish but it has not rusted up,” he said, adding that he would hold onto it as a keepsake as it would “cost a bomb” to do anything with. “I’ve promised that before Christmas we’ll go as a team to England to meet the Steel family,” he said.