When they had the cash (like after a robbery), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid liked to live in style.  Records from New York’s Tiffany & Company show that a James Ryan—a known alias for Butch—purchased a watch for $40 in 1901.  There are no known photos of that timepiece.

But there is one of the watch bought by Sundance.  He spent $15.35 on a pendant watch.  Etta/Ethyl Place wore it in a photo taken by the DeYoung Portrait Studio in January 1901—just before the outlaw trio caught a steamer to South America.

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