Two Robbers Flee Chelsea Shop With $4,800 Gold, Alligator Watch

CHELSEA, NY — Two men with expensive taste robbed a Chelsea antique store Sunday after feigning interest in buying a 14 karat gold and alligator Rolex, police said Monday.

The robbers, both in their 40s with possible European accents, walked into Showplace Antique + Design Center on W. 25th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues at 11 a.m. and haggled with a clerk over the lavish watch with an alligator band, black dial and and a 14 karat gold face, authorities said.

The men went back and forth with the clerk over price, even putting down an $100 deposit, before the robbers fled with swanky wrist watch. An employee who had been dealing with the men stepped away for a moment, when they returned to the display case, the Rolex and the men were gone, police said.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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