ARMED raiders who smashed their way through a jewellery shop with an axe and a gun escaped with a haul worth £1 million – but they failed to snatch Scotland's most expensive watch.
ARMED raiders who smashed their way through a jewellery shop with an axe and a gun escaped with a haul worth £1 million – but they failed to snatch Scotland's most expensive watch.
TIMEPIECE: Police believe the raiders may have been targetting the rare Opera 2 watch worth £500,000 but it has not been in the jewellers since Christmas.
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Brian Donnelly
The men wearing hooded tops who walked into ROX on George Street in Edinburgh at 5.15pm on Monday may have been targeting the rare time-piece from Swiss brand Girard-Perregaux which is worth £500,000, but it was not in the shop at the time.
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