{"id":425809,"date":"2025-12-05T05:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425809\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T05:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:59:19","slug":"james-bond-inspired-faberge-pendant-recovered-after-man-swallowed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/425809\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bond-inspired Faberg\u00e9 pendant recovered after man swallowed it"},"content":{"rendered":"

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) \u2014 New Zealand Police said Friday they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Faberg\u00e9<\/a> pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of swallowing<\/a> the jewelry in an Auckland store. <\/p>\n

They said the pendant was recovered Thursday night after it exited the suspect\u2019s gastrointestinal tract naturally without medical intervention. <\/p>\n

The limited-edition, Faberg\u00e9 egg pendant was inspired by the 1983 James Bond<\/a> film \u201cOctopussy,\u201d in which a jewel-smuggling operation involves a fake Faberg\u00e9 egg. <\/p>\n

A less glamorous photo supplied by New Zealand\u2019s police Friday showed a gloved hand holding the recovered pendant and its long, gold chain with an intact price tag showing the jewelry\u2019s 33,000 New Zealand dollar ($19,000) value.<\/p>\n

The man was arrested inside Partridge Jewelers in Auckland on Nov. 28 shortly after the alleged theft.<\/p>\n

He made a court appearance Nov. 29, when he didn\u2019t enter a plea to a charge of theft. Since then, he\u2019s been in police custody and officers had been stationed round the clock with the man to wait for the evidence to reemerge. <\/p>\n

The 32-year-old man has not been publicly named. He is due to appear in Auckland District Court on Monday and will remain in police custody until then.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven this man is in Police custody, we have a duty of care to continue monitoring him given the circumstances of what has occurred,\u201d Inspector Grae Anderson said in a statement Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The store\u2019s website says the egg, one of only 50 made, was crafted from gold, painted with green enamel and encrusted with 183 diamonds and two sapphires. The pendant is 8.4 centimeters (3.3 inches) tall and is mounted on a stand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe egg opens to reveal an 18ct yellow gold octopus nestled inside, adorned with white diamond suckers and black diamond eyes,\u201d an item description said. \u201cThe octopus surprise pays homage to the eponymous antagonist at the center of the \u2018Octopussy\u2019 film.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) \u2014 New Zealand Police said Friday they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Faberg\u00e9 pendant…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":425810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31574,171,57,2936,23133,50,15228,8156,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-425809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-law-enforcement","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-oddities","15":"tag-theft","16":"tag-world","17":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115665435047202911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}