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On 6 August 2009 at 4:40 pm, two sharply dressed men arrived at the Graff Diamonds jewellery store in New Bond Street, Central London, by taxi and once inside produced two handguns which they used to threaten staff. [citation needed] They made no attempt to conceal their faces from the premises' CCTV cameras due to their elaborate disguises.
The robbery was attributed to a group of armed robbers known as The Rascal Gang due to the Bedford Rascal vans they used. [34] In 2003, the New Bond Street premises was robbed by two men from the Pink Panthers international jewel thief network who stole 47 pieces of jewellery worth £23 million. [34]
A Patek Philippe pocket watch. This list of most expensive watches sold at auction documents the watches sold at auction worldwide for at least 1.5 million US dollars.The final price listed is the total price paid by the buyer converted to US dollars, according to the currency exchange rate at the time of auction.
Luxury watch prices peaked in the spring of 2022. A second hand Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner Date watch is displayed for sale on January 08, 2024 in Leigh-on-Sea, United Kingdom.
Graff jewellery shops in London have been attacked several times, alongside other shops in Bond Street and Hatton Garden. Banks, secure warehouses and vaults were targeted in the cases of the Brink's-Mat robbery, the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary, the Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery and the Northern Bank Robbery.
By 1962, he had two jewellery shops, including his first in Hatton Garden. [citation needed] In 1960, he founded the Graff Diamonds company. In 1966 he commissioned the English jewellery-designer Robert Thomas to design a diamond jewel to enter into the De Beers Diamond International Awards competition. The ribbon bracelet created won the ...
Simon Silverman, one of the gang, rented an office at 101 Hatton Garden, on the same postal route as Mayer's office (located at 88 Hatton Garden, now occupied by jewellers E. Katz & Co.). He studied the route and habits of the postman, W. E. Neville, whom he befriended, noting the time that he arrived and the length of time his deliveries took.
It was the first UK website dedicated to the online sale of second-hand watches when it started in 2002. [3] It was the first retailer to offer a "buy-back guarantee", in which the company refunds the cost of a watch if returned in good condition after two years. [5] It services and repairs at least 600 watches per month in-house. [6]