SJX
[Purist]
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Net cost of US$5 million
Would mean retail value of US$9-10 million.
This is pure speculation but it's possible that someone was filching watches for a period of time and it only just came to light.
- SJX
Pretty brazen theft in SG...
Agence France-Presse - 12/30/2008 6:40 AM GMT Rare multi-million-dollar watch theft in Singapore More than five million US dollars' worth of watches have been stolen from a Singapore shop, the dealer said, in a rare crime of such magnitude in one of Asia'...
not that many details to really comment...
There are quite a few ways this could have taken place and too few details to really comment.... then again there can't be that many viable explanations... ;-) This message has been edited by AFSG on 2008-12-30 04:33:24
Watch Theft
Has any of the other major retailers in Singapore been hit by something similar in the past?
speaking from many years in the detecting trade most jewellery thefts involve guns
even the recent harry Winston theft involved a daylight raid, guns and lots of shouting. can anyone here remember the last overnight/weekend jewellery raid that wasnt an inside job. i cant. the problem is we dont know if a break in occurred or whether key...
Finding a gun in Singapore, outside of the army and police
is harder than getting your hands on a stainless steel Patek minute repeater thanks to the laws here. And if you do so, the police will be out in their hundreds looking for you. - SJX
Today's paper reported that the police is suspecting an insider job,
they are looking for an employee who had gone missing since the 26th. ken1
