The watches worth into the millions are celebrity favorites — and in robbers’ sights, experts say. Michelle Yeoh wore one at the Oscars and Jay-Z is a fan.
He was not even the first driver in his team to be targeted. Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc had the $600,000 RM 67-02 named for him stolen in the Italian seaside resort of Viareggio in April 2022.
Richard Leclerc, another Ferrari Formula 1 driver, was targeted last year for his RM 67-02 which was named for him.“I had one criminal in Milan who corresponded with a guy in Singapore and asked him to bring his watch collection, which included Richard Mille watches, to Milan. He agreed to pay for his airfare and for his hotel bill and stay.
Other high-profile victims have been robbed in the street at gunpoint, as happened to Kim Kardashian friend and celebrity food influencer Jonathan Cheban near his home in Engelwood Cliffs, NJ in 2020, and even at VIP events. He subsequently sued the organizers, including Formula 1’s parent company Liberty Media, claiming he had been targeted in the VIP area, but dismissed the case earlier this year.
“The way it goes down is there are thousands of people at the event and someone bumps into you in the crowd and takes the watch off you without you even knowing. They can do it with a handshake,” Marinello said, “75 percent of the stolen Richard Mille watches are not insured, and police departments are not staffed and properly funded to deal with these crimes. I like to say understaffed, the polite way of saying lazy.”
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