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?
