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Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Updates on Solving the Breguet Marie Antoinette Watch Heist

I've been waiting for this for a LONG time. The story reads like a movie script [might make a good movie]. (pic from AP) See below for previous posts on the watch.

Solving theft - just took time - The Boston Globe: "JERUSALEM - It took time, but Israeli police detectives have cracked one of the country's greatest crimes - the legendary heist of a priceless clock collection from a Jerusalem museum a quarter-century ago. The 1983 theft, the costliest in Israel's history, saw 106 timepieces worth millions of dollars disappear from the L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art. Among them was a pocket watch made for Queen Marie Antoinette of France that museum officials value at more than $30 million.

Although the stolen clocks had no connection to Islamic culture, they were displayed in the museum because they originally belonged to the father of the museum's founder. The heist baffled police for more than two decades. But detectives now blame Naaman Diller - a notorious Israeli thief who fled to Europe and died in the United States in 2004.
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Oded Yaniv, one of the investigators who broke the case, said about 40 clocks are missing, but police are pursuing tips on where Diller scattered the goods around the world. Yaniv called the investigation a "once in a lifetime" experience, filled with international intrigue in the murky world of art dealing and antiquity trading."

Earlier posts on the Breguet Marie Antoinette Watch:
Marie-Antoinette watch unveiled in Basel -- just 200 years late
Updates on the Breguet Marie Antoinette Watch
Breguet Marie Antoinette Watch Found!

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