Hong Kong authorites are searching for a trio of thieves who stole over $125,000 worth of luxury watches in under 20 seconds.
A security camera captured video of the Tuesday night incident, where the robbers smashed the window glass of a ground-floor jewelry store and stole about 60 expensive watches.
Then, seemingly in the blink of an eye, they were gone.
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All told, the heist was completed in less than 20 seconds, according to The U.K. Daily Mail.
A male employee of the store had no choice but to watch as the thieves made off with high-end, second-hand timepieces, including Rolexes and Tudors.
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All told, the value of the stolen merchandise added up to about $128,000.
“One of the robbers used a hammer to smash the display window and threaten the employee,” a police spokesperson told the South China Morning Post.
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No one was injured in the robbery, but the thieves — all male — were able to escape before police arrived on the scene.
Each of the suspects had a dark complexion, police said, and the man with the hammer was about five and a half-feet tall.
The robbers all wore masks, hats and hoodies to hide their faces.
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As noted by the Post, it’s the fourth “smash-and-grab case” that the city has seen since March 2017.
Late last year, three men wearing masks used a sledgehammer to break into a luxury store and steal $184,000 worth of designer handbags.
In September, another trio of thieves made of with more than $3 million in jewelry after using a hammer to break a store window.
Finally, a single robber stole a a diamond ring worth more than $650,000 from a display window.
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The thief used a hammer to break the window, and in total, it took him just seven seconds to commit the crime.
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