Question after seeing the hoarding(collecting) of watches

MoclovFlop · Sep 11, 2020

I don't collect anything worth stealing.

That's right, thieves. Nothing but Invicta and drug store Casios in my house.

Move along.

Might even put out some dummy storage boxes filled with $.99 Dukes of Hazard watches just so they think they grabbed the good stuff on their way out.

DaveK · Sep 11, 2020

A decoy watch box is a good thing to have

Twocats · Sep 11, 2020

I have a tall thin gun case fixed to a wall on two sides in an awkward place, I have to bend sideways to open it. I keep my watches and trinkets the wife no longer wears in it plus passports and other documents. I use the 8 place leather watch storage boxes for the watches stacked vertically (crown up) I can get 3 boxes side by side plus all the other items in there.

I know its not the best system but normally a thief does not come tooled up for such an extraction and all my heavy power tools are in the cellar three floors below my apartment. Everything is covered under the home insurance. The wife keeps all of her watches in a winder in the bedroom, she changes watches every day depending on her outfit that day (what a surprise).

When we go on vacation I leave the jewellery box full of things of little sentimental value and fill the wife's winder with all my early quartz watches plus a bunch of automatic cheap watches I have no love for.

30T2 · Sep 11, 2020

High Hope
Back in the old days when I had a Golden Retriever, I always suspected that she would amble over to the thief and give him a big wet lick on his face.

Lol

slwoodster · Sep 11, 2020

mjb
I have a safe, hidden, and insurance and of course there is the house alarm, the moat and the two attack cats in the house who will... well, one will run away, but the other will hiss at you quite menacingly before hiding under the bed.

Probably best is that most of my neighbors are retired or work from home and so there are lots of eyeballs on the place.

how much was the moat?

30T2 · Sep 11, 2020

mjb
I have a safe, hidden, and insurance and of course there is the house alarm, the moat and the two attack cats in the house who will... well, one will run away, but the other will hiss at you quite menacingly before hiding under the bed.

Probably best is that most of my neighbors are retired or work from home and so there are lots of eyeballs on the place.

I know what u mean about the cats, they might bring a trophy kill. Now the watching (spying) neighbors is an advantage. I have them as well, small gated community.

Question after seeing the hoarding(collecting) of watches

MoclovFlop

DaveK

Twocats

30T2

slwoodster

30T2

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