During the session at the annual TV event, a video was played showing Dench presenting The Repair Shop team with the pocketwatch, which she had given to her late husband, actor Michael Williams, in 1972.
Dame Judi Dench has said having her late husband’s pocketwatch fixed on The Repair Shop was “more than she could possibly hope for”.
The Repair Shop is a BBC programme in which a team of craftspeople work to restore special items for their owners.
Dench has previously appeared in a sketch based on The Repair Shop for Comic Relief.