TOKYO BOUTIQUE ROBBED OF $3.2 MILLION WORTH OF WATCHES

SOME 200 LUXURY DESIGNER WATCHES, INCLUDING ROLEX AND CARTIER, WORTH AN ESTIMATED 300 MILLION YEN ($3.2 MILLION) WERE LOOTED FROM AN UNMONITORED AREA OF A BOUTIQUE IN TOKYO'S OPULENT GINZA DISTRICT, SIGNALING AN INSIDE, JOB POLICE SAID. A HOLE HAD BEEN BORED EARLY SATURDAY IN A FIRST-STORY WALL OF A NINE-STORY BUILDING WHICH HOUSES THE TENSHODO STORE, LEADING TO A STAIRCASE TO THE STORE'S BASEMENT WHERE THE WATCHES WERE STORES, POLICE SAID. SECURITY CAMERAS RECORDED TWO INTRUDERS WITH FLASHLIGHTS AROUND 4:50am SATURDAY, BUT THE INFRARED SENSORS IN THE BASEMENT DID NOT GO OFF. POLICE SAID SENSORS DID NOT MONITOR THE AREA WITH THE BROKEN SHOWCASES. AN EMPLOYEE DISCOVERED THE BREAK-IN WHEN HE REPORTED FOR WORK EARLY.