Fedex / customs issue help

Good point.

Also anything over 100 years old enters tax free, do to so just write the date of the item in the customs description paperwork. I believe at that point no additional form need it, but not sure 100% get all the details from FedEx CS before shipment.

I have always gone under the assumption that the gold case is basically worth its weight in gold only, at best. Without the mvmt it's not worth much more.
however a much higher us duty is applied to the case, which makes no sense.

On a hypothetical 5k watch, I would assign 200 to strap, 800 to car, 4000 to mvmt.

If you do 50 50 on a gold watch the duty will increase 300-400 percent or more I'm on my iPad so it's not in front of me but if you'd like I can send you the uscbp codes. The duty on the case is huge vs the movement.