Bush's Watch Stolen in Albanian Crowd?

George W. Bush, flanked by Secret Service agents, worked the crowd at a public appearance in Albania. Fifty seconds into this video from Albanian broadcast news, we can see the watch on Bush's left wrist. A few moments later, surrounded by a forest of hands, he glances downward. Moments after that, his left wrist is bare.

Here, on a Dutch-language page, is a version of the video that is crisper than the crappy one from YouTube, and it also draws helpful circles showing the watch on Bush's wrist before and the bare wrist after.

(YouTube video via Kieran Healy; Dutch video via Mark Frauenfelder)

Update: Bruce Schneier writes about both the apparent theft and the various denials that the Bush camp is making: Bush put his arm behind him so a bodyguard could remove it. The watch fell to the ground and was recovered by a bodyguard. Bush took it off himself.

Nothing is proven — it isn't even clear that the watch was stolen — but the experience of various members of the Bush Administration not being able to get its story straight is a familiar one.

Update #2: Another video has emerged showing Bush taking the watch off himself.