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Swiss luxury watches stolen in Paris raid

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Swiss luxury watches stolen in Paris raid
Police outside the Girard-Perregaux watch store on Thursday. Photo: Bertrand Guay/AFP

Two men made off with half a million euros' worth of luxury watches after threatening staff at the central Paris offices of Swiss watchmaker Girard-Perregaux with tear gas, police said.

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"Two men pretended to be couriers to get the door opened," a police source told AFP on Thursday.
   
After threatening staff there with tear gas canisters, they escaped "with about 10 watches with an estimated value of 500,000 euros ($546,000)", said the source.
   
A spokesman for Girard-Perregaux's parent company Kering confirmed the value of the stolen watches.
   
In March, a Chopard jewellery store in the nearby Place Vendome was robbed of an undisclosed amount of merchandise by two men armed with a pistol and a grenade.
   
Security was stepped up in the chic square after a series of violent robberies there in 2014.
   
Both raids were in the same area that reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed in a luxury apartment by armed men who got away with jewellery worth around nine million euros ($10 million).

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