{"id":81960,"date":"2022-09-05T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T08:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=81960"},"modified":"2022-09-05T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T08:07:09","slug":"london-police-record-621-robberies-of-luxury-watches-in-first-half-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/london-police-record-621-robberies-of-luxury-watches-in-first-half-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"London police record 621 robberies of luxury watches in first half of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police report there have been 621 robberies of luxury watches in the first seven months of this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almost one third of them were in the West End, Belgravia or Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The sharpest rises in the number of watch robberies were in wealthy neighbourhoods of Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster Hammersmith and Fulham, which saw recorded thefts rise by 60% between April and June.<\/p>\n<p>Footage emerged last week of a woman on a street in Chelsea being attacked for her her watch in broad daylight by two masked men wielding knives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Violent knifepoint robbery: thugs steal woman&#039;s watch in Chelsea\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qwTcfTNJ2pY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, a man in a \u00a33 million Bugatti close to Hyde Park Corner in London had his windows smashed by an attacker on a moped who stole his Rolex watch, reportedly worth \u00a3110,000.<\/p>\n<p>Police have promised to add patrols in areas seeing the highest levels of assaults.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know the impact these crimes have on each end every victim and that is whey we have extra officers in place in locations where these crimes are most common,&#8221; Detective Chief Superintendent Owain Richards told <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk\/data\/1075\/reader\/reader.html?#!preferred\/0\/package\/1075\/pub\/1075\/page\/21\/article\/NaN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Police also advise the public to keep valuables like watches concealed and to be aware of their surroundings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring value of watches from the likes of Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe and Rolex are prompting a dramatic rise in street robberies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[7024,2],"tags":[3035],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81960"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=81960"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=81960"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=81960"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=81960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}