A watch Yoko Ono bought for her late husband John Lennon as a birthday gift months before his assassination will be returned to her, a Swiss court has ruled.

A rare watch given to John Lennon by his wife Yoko Ono and which was stolen after his death does not belong to an Italian man who bought it from an auction house years later, a Swiss court ruled on Thursday,

The Patek Philippe was a 40th birthday gift to the former Beatle from his wife Ono before his assassination in 1980

It sounds like Yoko Ono will soon get back a reminder of her late husband John Lennon. A Swiss court has ruled that the Beatle’s long-lost Patek Philippe 2499 rightfully belongs to Ono, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

At long last, Yoko Ono has won a legal case establishing that a watch once owned by her murdered husband, John Lennon, belongs to her, rather than to a private collector.