An elderly man laughed about his fight with two alleged thieves who tried to rob him of an expensive gold watch while he was walking along a street in New York City.

Larry Schwartz told WNBC-TV that he was walking from a senior center in Gramercy Park on Aug. 3 when he and his companion were approached by a man who said he was visiting from Dubai. Schwartz says he was wearing a Rolex worth about $46K.

'I twisted her pretty good, including her body. ... So I worked her over pretty good.'

"He's calling me and he's saying, 'I'm from Dubai,'" Joanna Cuccia recalled. "I turned around, and I said, 'Well, welcome to New York.'"

He then asked her for directions to Walmart.

"I said, 'There are no Walmarts in Manhattan.' He said, 'Tell that to my wife,'" Cuccia added.

The couple went to a ca

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