Malaysia Watch Forum
Main Forums => General Discussion - Modern Watches => Topic started by: D'Andy on June 20, 2016, 01:30:31 PM
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Upon purchase, I tend to remove the watches from their original boxes and place them into my watch winders. Therefore, the original watch boxes along with their inner-outer covers, manuals, papers, etc would be kept in the cabinet since day one of watch purchase. There has only been a couple of occasions when I needed to access the warranty cards for warranty claims, then I would go and remove the stacks of watch boxes in my cabinet to retrieve the necessary warranty card. While adding in yet another watch box earlier, I noticed that I had quite a few boxes from Rolex, Omega, Tag Heuer, Ball, etc that had been untouched since when the watches were bought. In fact, some of those watches had thereafter been flipped or given off as gifts. I know that for local buyers, all my buyers had preferred to have the original boxes together with the watches when I flipped the watches; but the overseas buyers sometimes prefer shipment without boxes for lower shipment weight/cost, or to avoid the additional attention from their countries' custom.
Do you keep your watch boxes around, or do you just dispose them off thereafter?
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keeping every single piece of it.. I am a lomantik
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I keep every single one of it too, stacked in the cupboard somewhere..... ;D
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Hehe, looks like the Keeping-Watch-Boxes-Anonymous-Group could be gaining momentum here... :Dancing_banana: :Jumping:
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I keep it. Too beautiful to throw away ;D but now my closet is out of space and I start thinking most swiss made watch have an oversize box ;D even the Claude Bernard watch have a large box.
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Box , Papers , Tags , Certificate Etc seems to be useless unless the use of warranty claim. Other than that i dont think most of us go through those stuffs when we wear the watch or once we keep it in our watch winder or custom watch box but keeping those is a must i guess? Lol
But with my experience on collecting watches is that the watch box seems to be brand new as i dont really use them to keep my watches daily ;)
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Hehe, looks like the Keeping-Watch-Boxes-Anonymous-Group could be gaining momentum here... :Dancing_banana: :Jumping:
:thumbsup: :Cheers:
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I keep everything. even the shipping docs if i buy from overseas. :Jumping:
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Yes for sure will keep
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For sure I have kept all the boxes, cert. manuals, etc, as they are part of my purchases. I have put the watches in the watch storage box or watch winder. Have been keeping many boxes in the closet now and yet to organize them...
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Watch boxes decay over time. A friend of mine kept his watch boxes at his office (away from his wife's knowledge).
When he decided to sell a few of the watches 2-3 years later the box were already in bad shape.
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You may put some dry desiccant in the closet together with the boxes..
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I also keep the watch boxes...but the boxes tend to damage over time.
Maybe to put the dessicant is a good suggestion :thumbsup:
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I will keep it at 1st but after awhile will throw it away to have more space for new boxes... :Dancing_banana:
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Keep everything I get my hands on. But in truth, the boxes will one day decay. The watch hopefully won't.
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Those watches had thereafter been flipped or given off as gifts.
Any watches to be given off soon ;D ??
Anyway i keep everything despite some boxes had decayed.
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i only see the boxes on the day of purchase. as soon as i reach home i stacked them up in whichever available space i have in the home.
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I got it. But it's some where in the house. I probably see it again when I am selling the watch. Otherwise its just a forgotten piece.
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I always keep everything.
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Will definitely keep the boxes and documents but the problem is I'm starting to lose track on the location of the boxes (some are where I reside and some are back in Malaysia).
Doesn't really add much value even though when reselling, but for potential buyer it definitely provides better peace of mind. I just keep them because most of them look nice.
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Always in my stock yard...I love seeing the boxes and complete set around
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i keep all my watch boxes, somehow it feels satisfying to put it back together and have a good look.
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i keep all my watch boxes, somehow it feels satisfying to put it back together and have a good look.
I had the same feeling
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i keep everything in storage in case i sell the watch in the future. I don't necessarily use it, but just purely for resale.
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i always keep it. watch complete with box normally got extra resale value