¥46 million Audemars Piguet watch swiped in 8 minutes at Nakano Broadway

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police are hunting a suspect who brazenly walked out of a third-floor watch boutique inside a shopping area in Nakano Ward with an expensive watch on Thursday, reports TV Asahi (Oct. 30).

At around 8:00 p.m., the man entered the store in Nakano Broadway disguised as a customer and requested to try on a Audemars Piguet timepiece. The moment it was clasped to his left wrist, he bolted, according to police. From the time he walked in to the moment he fled, just eight minutes had elapsed.

The stolen item is worth an estimated 46 million yen.

Witnesses described a man clad entirely in black sprinting through the complex and disappearing from the third floor down toward the basement. “He was dressed in black, just whoosh, gone, and I thought, what on earth,” one bystander told reporters. “By the time I went past the store, there must have been about 20 police officers swarming the place.”

Tokyo police said the suspect is approximately 180 centimeters tall and was wearing a black jacket, black trousers, and a camouflage-pattern cap at the time of the theft. He was last seen fleeing in a northerly direction. He remains at large.

The brazen heist is the second to rock Nakano Broadway in a matter of months. In August, four luxury watches valued at a combined 200 million were stolen from a first-floor store in the same complex. Two Chilean nationals were arrested in connection with that case.

The five-floor shopping complex, which runs from basement level one to the fourth floor, has now suffered watch thefts on two separate floors. Security at the venue, long celebrated as a haven for subculture and collectibles, has been thrust into the spotlight. Police said the investigation is ongoing.

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东京（TR）——据朝日电视台（10月30日）报道，周四，一名嫌疑人胆大妄为地从中野区一家购物区三楼的钟表精品店里拿着一块昂贵的手表大摇大摆地走了出来，东京警视厅正在追捕此人。

晚上8点左右，一名男子伪装成顾客进入位于中野百老汇的一家商店，要求试戴一块爱彼（Audemars Piguet）手表。据警方称，手表刚一扣到他的左手腕上，他就拔腿就跑。从他进店到逃跑，仅仅过去了八分钟。

被盗物品价值估计为4600万日元。

目击者称，一名全身黑衣的男子飞奔穿过整个建筑群，从三楼消失在地下室附近。“他一身黑衣，嗖的一声就不见了，我当时就想，这到底是怎么回事？”一位旁观者告诉记者。“等我经过商店的时候，大概有20名警察围住了那里。”

东京警方称，嫌疑人身高约180厘米，作案时身穿黑色夹克、黑色长裤和迷彩帽。他最后一次被人看到是向北方逃窜。目前他仍然在逃。

这起胆大妄为的盗窃案是几个月内发生在Nakano Broadway的第二起案件。今年8月，同一栋楼一楼的一家商店被盗走了四块价值两亿日元的名表。两名智利籍嫌疑人因涉嫌此案被捕。

这家五层高的购物中心，从地下一层延伸至四层，目前已在两层楼发生手表盗窃案。该购物中心长期以来被誉为亚文化和收藏品的聚集地，如今其安保问题已成为关注焦点。警方表示，调查仍在进行中。

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