A Patek Philippe watch given to John Lennon by his wife Yoko Ono shortly before his assassination in 1980 has been discovered in Geneva, resurfacing after having disappeared for years.
The former Beatle’s timepiece is currently in possession of lawyers for an Italian watch collector who bought it from a now-defunct German auction house, according to official legal documents from a Geneva court. Ono had given Lennon the watch for his 40th birthday, and a former driver for the Japanese artist is suspected to have stolen the timepiece long ago.
While the court’s ruling doesn’t mention Lennon nor Ono by name, biographical details clearly identify them. The suit mentions her nationality and that he was assassinated in front of his home two months after turning 40. The documents also mention an engraving on the watch that references a song the couple had “composed together after a period of separation.”
In 2014, a Geneva company contacted Ono as it was trying to set a valuation of the timepiece, which had been bought for 600,000 Swiss francs by an Italian watch collector living in Hong Kong, according to the court documents.
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