An Irishman is offering a €5,000 reward for information that leads to the recovery of his Rolex after it was snatched off his wrist in Mijas.

Professional PGA golfer Finian Dwyer, 53, was walking back home from a popular bar in Calahonda on Saturday afternoon when he was targeted by a woman.

He told the Spanish Eye how he was just 50 yards from his front door when she approached him, adding that it happened ‘so fast’.

‘I saw her trying to get into the flats next door and then she took some flowers from a bush,’ he recalled, adding that he thought she was acting strange.

‘Then she came up to me saying ‘looky looky’ and I told her to get lost and then she hugged me and I pushed her away.’

Finian said he barely got 10 metres when he realised his watch was gone from his wrist, as he turned to see the thief drive off with a bald man in a white Renault Scenic.

He added: ‘I made a report to the police who said they could be gypsies.

‘It’s not the value, it’s very important and sentimental to me, it’s my dad’s, he had it 30 years and he left it to me when he died. and now my sister won’t talk to me.

‘I’m happy to pay handsomely to get the watch back. I can buy any Rolex in the world but it’s got real sentimental value.’

Finian said he has been left ‘depressed’ by the ordeal and won’t feel like leaving his home ‘for a good while’.

‘I found out after that nobody brings expensive watches out on the Costa del Sol anymore because they rob them off their wrist,’ he added.

It comes weeks after a man was allegedly robbed at gunpoint in Marbella for his Rolex.

Footage shared online reportedly showed the aftermath of the incident in Nueva Andalucia on April 27.

A police car was seen pulled up next to a golf buggy, which the victim was allegedly riding at the time of the incident.

The video caption read: ‘A man was robbed at gunpoint in Nueva Andalucia.

‘They stole his Rolex and fled on a motorcycle.’

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