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Two years ago my wife and I moved to Peru for a one-year stay. She volunteered helping poor children with their schoolwork, while I paid the rent by telecommuting for an American educational software startup. Our visit was to culminate with a tour of southern Peru and a hike to Machu Picchu with our families, who were flying down to meet us.

One night in Arequipa we hailed a taxi cab to go to the movies. After a few minutes the driver stopped on a dark street and three accomplices jumped in. They demanded our money, but fortunately we weren't carrying much. Unsatisfied and convinced we were hiding more; they blindfolded us, unzipped our pants, and searched under our clothes while the driver zigzagged through the back streets of Arequipa. The saddest moment was when I felt the robbers pulling off my watch and wedding ring and I knew there was nothing I could do to stop them. Finally convinced we had nothing more to steal, the robbers dropped us off in a different neighborhood from where we were picked up and drove off.

This was the last straw for my wife, who had already been mugged twice and held up at gunpoint. Our families canceled their trips and we returned to the US, without my watch or wedding ring and without getting to see Machu Picchu. I replaced the ring soon after returning to the US, but I haven't yet replaced the watch. It was a Skagen 6LSS, which is the second most perfect watch ever made. I bought it to replace the Skagen 5LSS, the perfect watch, that my mom bought me for my high school graduation. It got run over by a car (my own dumb fault). Neither model is being produced by Skagen anymore, and now I'm a grad student so even a $90 watch seems like an extravagance.

In short, I would really appreciate this watch.

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