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Re: Packaging

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I vote for travel case, completely practical and as they are continually re-usable eco-friendly?
Unless of course they are made from super rare hard wood that took 200 years to grow...

Would a forum vote help?
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:lol: .... that photo gave me a good laugh.

That looks very familiar Richard.

I have many storage boxes full of watch boxes tucked away in the garage all labeled like yours. I know I am not alone.
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Travel cases now there is a can of worms! I have been searching for the prefect travel case for a long time now. I have had the Boschett style travel case and a Rapport Watch and cuff link travel case.

These require you to lay the watch flat which is a pain with deployment clasps and also they were generally fiddly to get the watch into due to the elastic strap. Also if the watch case wasn't round or larger than 42mm (just!) forget it!

So I started looking for a cylinder style travel case and luckily my Bremont Supermarine arrived in this

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As you can see it can hold a good 3 to 4 watches, depending on size, quite easily and is very good for travelling with multiple watches. To be perfect though, I would prefer the the middle roll/tube/whatever to be much thicker as I still need to tighten my deployments so they sit nice and tight on the roll. The woe's of a large wrist-ed man, I suppose! :lol:
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hmmm, I'd expect a watch costing as much as the Bremont to come with a little chap who carries your watches around for you... :D
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:lol: good pic of all the boxes...actually, thinking about it, perhaps whether you keep the box is an indicator of how much you value the watch. I haven't kept the eco-drive boxes and won't be keeping the G-Shock's box/tin ...
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highway61 wrote: :lol: good pic of all the boxes...actually, thinking about it, perhaps whether you keep the box is an indicator of how much you value the watch. I haven't kept the eco-drive boxes and won't be keeping the G-Shock's box/tin ...
I admit I am a bit of a hoarder. If you look closely at that picture, you will see a small blue box that came with a £60 Seiko from Chris (ctafield) on this very forum. :shock: You never know when you may need them.... :)


Kip wrote::lol: .... that photo gave me a good laugh.

That looks very familiar Richard.

I have many storage boxes full of watch boxes tucked away in the garage all labeled like yours. I know I am not alone.
I am sure it is not only you and I, Kip. :lol:
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Maybe we can all make a buck some day....

Rolex boxes seem to go for an average of $100 on Ebay with Omega boxes selling for $50 -75.
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Perhaps a travel case as standard with the option to upgrade to a box if it is for something like a presentation.
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C6 showed up, one of the lugs came off during shipping, the watch seems to be running fine. I blame royal mail for that!
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seikowatchfan wrote:C6 showed up, one of the lugs came off during shipping, the watch seems to be running fine. I blame royal mail for that!
One of the lugs? :shock:
As in a piece of the case has sheared of?
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village wrote:
seikowatchfan wrote:C6 showed up, one of the lugs came off during shipping, the watch seems to be running fine. I blame royal mail for that!
One of the lugs? :shock:
As in a piece of the case has sheared of?

Think that'd be a first :wink:

Spring pin holding the strap in perhaps????
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Monkey wrote: Spring pin holding the strap in perhaps????
That would be my guess.

If the watch lost a lug I would start being much nicer to postal employees. :)
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I think that the best way forward is to leave the boxes as they are, as if giving a watch as a gift makes the watch appear very special and expensive. As Kip said earlier when selling on in years to come , a watch box can add value to the item, and also looks like the seller looked after the item. Try selling model cars and trains without a box....worth pennies....but with the original box/papers....££££££ or for you over there ....$$$$$.

But for Chris and his business the option of buying a travel case with the watch would be a valuable option along side "gift" wrap, "engraving" etc.... maybe an incentive to buy the travel case at the time of the watch it could be a couple of quid cheaper than buying as an "accessory"?

My son inherited his grandfather Omega sea master, with no box/papers, but I bought an Omega travel case off the "bay" for it to be stored in, and instantly the watch becomes valuable, respected and to be cared for.....he is only 9, so I wear it for him ! :D until he is old enough to look after and respect it.....tough job for me but some one has to do it !
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but once one has couple of boxes in case of later flippings, the travel case becomes an attractive ALTERNATIVE, not an extra buy!
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Should we have a new thread - watch box collections...



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