Thieves had smashed the shop’s display window before making off with 14 Hermes bags and one YSL bag, the South China Morning Post reported.
The shop, which opened on Oct 24, is a pop-up store for online luxury bazaar, Guiltless. According to its website, the store is expected to be open until Dec 26.
Guiltless was founded by Yen Kuok, the billionaire’s youngest child. Like many of the items sold by the company, the stolen handbags were second-hand.
The shop is located in Hong Kong’s financial district at the Man Yee Building shopping centre on Queen’s Road Central.
The theft was discovered when a security guard saw the damaged window at the first-floor store and called police at 7.49am.
“The display window was broken, and the shop had been ransacked. A one-metre sledgehammer was found inside the store,” the South China Morning Post quoted a police spokeswoman as saying.
“Three masked men used a hammer to break the display window of the store at about 6.30am before entering,” the police source said, adding that the entire theft took less than a minute. Two of the burglars were also wearing hats.
So far, no one has been arrested.