Seven minutes is all it took for thieves to rob the world’s most famous museum Sunday. Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of how it went down.

Thieves carjacked the furniture lift used to break into the Louvre for the smash-and-grab raid nine days before the crown jewel heist.

The only camera monitoring the exterior wall of the Louvre where they broke in was pointing away from the first-floor balcony that led to Gallery of Apollo housing the jewels, she said. "We failed these jewels," she said, adding that no-one was protected from "brutal criminals - not even the Louvre".

Authorities raced against the clock Tuesday as experts in art security told NBC News it could already be too late to recover the jewels.

A new video has emerged showing what could be the Louvre thieves in action as they carried out Sunday’s daylight robbery at Paris’s world-famous museum. The footage, obtained by French broadcaster BFMTV, purportedly shows what has been called one of the most brazen art thefts in recent memory.

Thieves on Sunday broke into the Louvre using a furniture lift to access the first floor, cut into display cases and seized eight pieces including a diamond encrusted brooch that belonged to Napoleon III’s wife Empress Eugénie,