I was stunned when my wife bought me a £39k Rolex for my 40th – but then I realised it was all a joke

DAD Kevin Talbutt took a minute to recover when his hoped-for birthday Rolex turned out to be . . . a cake.

Watches fan Kevin, 40, had been going on for weeks about his perfect gift so wife Sonia, 37, decided to teach him a lesson.

She hired a baker to make an edible replica of a white gold Rolex Submariner Date Blue in a box instead of lavishing £39,000 on a real one.

Sherren Chandler spent three days on the chocolate sponge container and watch made of icing to unveil at a party in front of friends and family.

Sonia said: “He’d kept going on and on about this watch and sometimes when you ask for things too much, you don’t get.

“He was sulking that I might not buy him what he wanted so I thought it would be funny to trick him for a few seconds.”

Sonia said: “He couldn’t stop laughing when the cake was unveiled — and nor could the guests!”

IT worker Kevin admitted he was fooled when the “watch” appeared at Franco’s Italian restaurant in Datchet, Berks.

He said: “I was excited for a moment but then I realised it was all a joke.

“Fair play. It got me.”