What birthday gift would you absolutely love, and not want to return?

My boyfriends birthday is coming up. I would love to gift him something exciting and, since Copilot don't seem to understand the particular character of my boyfriend, "No, he does not want a getaway...", I thought to ask here, since a lot of you probably share similarities with him;

He loves finance, currently fixated on VBA and modeling Equity consolidation. Spends most of his waking hours at the office. He is obsessed with keyboards, ear/headphones, his office attire, desk set-up, and his bike. Besides that he train for Ironmans. He is quite specific with every single item he owns, which is why I call him "The King of Returns".

Any ideas?

He has mentioned before that; 

  • a vests seems comfortable, but that they are a bit too "finance-broy".
  • a coffee mug that would poke fun at a "economic-analysis" software that his work use, that he does not like at all, and promote excel instead

Thanks a lot! Any input/idea would be greatly appreciated.

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A nice perfume, a monitor upgrade if needs it, the Logitech Master MX 3S mouse, custom swimming goggles (there's a company I think that 3d prints custom goggles for your face), a nice ergonomic home office chair if he needs a good one, a nice tie from a luxury brand like Hermes, a ventapack or something similar to prevent sweating during commutes (if he takes a backpack to work)

 
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A blowjob. He's not going to want that back unless he's into the whole Tom Wambsgans closed-loop system thing. 

...but is it REPE?
 

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