15 years ago, Robert Geiss experienced something frightening. Thieves stole his luxury watch – they probably used drugs to do so.
The Geissens have been demonstrating their luxurious life on TV for years. But the millionaire lifestyle also has its dark side. Entrepreneur Robert Geiss found this out first hand. Criminals stole his watch from the Swiss company Audemars Piguet, worth 25,000 euros, from his villa in Saint-Tropez. 15 years later, he has finally got it back – but it is linked to a sinister incident.
The 60-year-old reveals this in a new episode of his podcast “Die Geissens” and also explains how he got the luxury watch back. The suspected thief took it to Hong Kong for repairs. However, it was identified using the serial number and kept by Audemars Piguet. Thanks to his wife Carmen, Robert Geiss had all the original papers ready to get the watch back. “It's worth twice as much today,” says Robert Geiss. In the following picture you can see the TV star with the watch on his wrist.
However, the day on which the luxury item was stolen still seems to haunt him and his family. “We weren't on TV back then and we had rented a house for two months,” remembers Carmen Geiss. Her daughters Davina and Shania, who are now adults, were still small at the time and slept in the accommodation further away from their parents' bedroom.
Carmen Geiss suspects that the thieves followed them home from the city that day and gained access to the villa during the night – probably using anesthetic gas: “That's why we had a headache the next day,” says the 59-year-old. They have now had a special system installed in their new house so that the situation cannot happen again.
