Stolen Girard-Perregaux Watches Discovered in France

Girard-Perregaux had a very good reason to breathe a sigh of relief and to celebrate when a very valuable collection of their fine Swiss watches was recovered last week. The luxury watches were primarily from the 1700s and are said to be worth millions of Swiss francs. They were discovered in a sack in scrubland in eastern France near the Swiss border.

The heist was anything but methodical and sly: the three robbers simply nabbed them by smashing the display case at the museum in the north-western Swiss town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, home of the world’s greatest watch manufacturer’s, on Thursday, July 5. The snatch and run tactic proved to be less than stellar as the two of three men were caught and arrested the very next day. The burglars would have faced another obstacle in their seeming effort to get rich, experts said, as the watches would have been hard to sell on the open market since they were catalogued.

The valuable Girard-Perregaux watches were located on Saturday but police and officials held off making any announcement regarding the theft because the hunt for the third man was still in progress.

While luxury is desired by many, these robbers apparently hatched a get rich quick scheme which has only afforded them a less than luxurious jail cell.