Bullet is stopped by an employee's watch during jewelry store robbery

A man who worked at a jewelry store was wearing the right jewelry on an evening of a terrifying robbery - a watch that stopped a bullet.
When three masked robbers burst into Sam's Jewelry Emporium on East Exchange Street in Akron, Ohio just before 8:00pm Thursday, the employees dove for the floor.
The masked men smashed a display case with a hammer and grabbed tens of thousands of dollars worth of high-end Swiss watches before shooting a bullet and running out of the door, according to Fox 8 Cleveland.
All it took was 12 seconds.
But that bullet hit employee Eduardo Escudero's uncle. 'I don't know if he thought my uncle had a gun, but he just ended up just randomly shooting at him and then my uncle ended up getting shot,' Escudero told the outlet.
Escudero said while his uncle yelled for help, the rest of the employees waited ten or fifteen seconds, to make sure that the armed men were gone.
Then they rushed to the uncle and saw his had a gash in his forearm. Escudero also noticed something incredible - his uncle's watch was completely smashed, blown apart from the force of the bullet.
'Maybe God was looking after him; if it didn't hit the watch, who knows if it would've hit anything else or, you know, how big of damage it would have done to his hand,' he said.
While the robbers were masked, Escudero remained hopeful they will be caught.
He said the jewelry store has been in business since 1972 and this is their first time being robbed.