Friday, December 05, 2008

Talk to Me Harry Winston

From Yahoo! News:

Armed robbers snatched E85 million or US$108 million worth of diamond
rings, necklaces and luxury watches from the Harry Winston boutique
near the Champs-Elysees in one of the largest jewel heists in history,
officials said Friday.

The gang of three or four robbers threatened about 15 employees with
handguns striking some on the head before taking the jewels from
display cases from the store. At least two of the bandits were men
wearing wigs and women's clothes. The robbers also spoke a foreign
language at times and appeared to know employees' names when they
robbed the store before it closed early Thursday at the height of
Christmas shopping season.

The boutique on Avenue Montaigne was closed to the public Friday.
Employees who came out for cigarette breaks refused to speak to
reporters, and three of the five display windows stood empty of their
usual wares.

Looks like the donation by company founder Harry Winston of the Hope
Diamond — the world's largest blue diamond and famed for the bad luck
that it brought its owners — to the Smithsonian Institution was a
smart move.

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