For those of you who have 1 - 3 watches you wear on a regular basis, and plan to pass them to your kids, what do you do with your watch boxes? Do you show them off on your dresser or nightstand, or do you ferret them away in storage in the off chance you will want to sell the watch?
Say what? Ha! I occasionally fetch them out of the safe just to tick off the wife unit [MacGyverette]...good times! The one below really ticks off MacGyverette...
Half a cabinet full of boxes, manuals, papers and miscellaneous errata. The watches themselves are either on my wrist or in the safe..
Original boxes are not generally designed to be opened and closed constantly (new Omega cabinets excluded). It wears them out prematurely. All my boxes go in the closet never to be used again.......until the watch is sold.
How can a woman with the superb taste to have married so well not exercise that same taste in decor? Bewildering.
Well... since my watches tend to be hundred year old American railroad pieces.... there's few boxes involved.
I sold the presentation box of my moonwatch for $325.. which for me is a good price considering I am never going to sell my watch . I also plan to sell its bracelet which I have never used so far just for this reason.
The original boxes are in a drawer somewhere (I know where) ... but I keep the actual watches (the five I wear most often) in a nice polished wooden box. No winder - I try to keep a couple of them running at any given time for a quick change n' go.