{"id":151490,"date":"2026-05-17T02:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151490"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:17:30","slug":"swatch-audemars-piguet-watch-launch-ignites-global-chaos-tear-gas-fired-in-parisunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151490","title":{"rendered":"Swatch-Audemars Piguet watch launch ignites global chaos, tear gas fired in ParisUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe launch of limited edition Swatch watches descended into chaos on Saturday in several European cities and New York, with French police firing tear gas to restore order at one store near Paris.<br \/>\nHundreds of people waited through the night \u2013 and in some cases for several days \u2013 hoping to get their hands on the \u201cRoyal Pop\u201d timepieces, made in collaboration with luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet.<br \/>\nIn France, lines of hundreds of people formed through the night in several cities and a police source&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3353850\/swatch-audemars-piguet-watch-launch-ignites-global-chaos-tear-gas-fired-paris?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe launch of limited edition Swatch watches descended into chaos on Saturday in several European cities and New York, with French&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}