Blancpain was robbed!

For the watch company Blancpain the end of the week turned out to be extremely unfortunate. A burglary attempt was taken place at the exhibition "Cité du Temps" in Geneva on Thursday (02.02.2012). As the representatives of the company mentioned, some people are about to sacrifice their life for watches Blancpain. Fortunately, nobody was hurt during the robbery, and thanks to the timely and effective intervention by the security of the company, one of the four thieves was immediately arrested, and most of the stolen watches were recovered. However, even such insignificant damage does not leave the company Blancpain choice but to close the show earlier than planned.

robbery at Blancpain exhibition

Comments

  • Suzanna

    Awful! However, I'll hazard a guess that could be some crazy PR stunt...

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