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Kathmandu: salt-waterproof wrist watches for sale
 

To convince buyers that wrist watches are waterproof this market seller in Kathmandu places them in water – salt water. Punters think they are buying waterproof watches, when in fact they are buying salt-waterproof watches. Photo taken around new year ’05.

What you see is not what you get.