Your favourite packaging

[Justayellowbadge]

I am a sucker for decent packaging - dive kits, spare straps, tools, that sort of thing.

I think this is my favourite of mine. It's an Asprey No 8 COSC chronograph.

Comes in a large wooden box:



The interior is the most wonderful soft hide:



Compartment in the lid for docs, and a small one for straps:



The best bit though is the cushion. It's a removable travel case, again hand made in hide:





Let's see yours..

[battered]

I prefer the case to the watch, on this occasion.

[hosedoctor]

My favourite packaging is bubble wrap!!

[toasty]

Frankly I'd prefer they spend enough to protect the watch and save the rest of the money.

Would you specify it if the box was optional at £200 more?

[battered]

toasty said:

Frankly I'd prefer they spend enough to protect the watch and save the rest of the money.

Would you specify it if the box was optional at £200 more?

Well, if ever I saw a £200 box, that's it.

If you are spending a lot of money on a luxury item then a (very) nice box like that, especially with a built-in travel case like that, is a reasonable part of that. A £10k watch does not belong in a bit of bubble wrap in a fag packet, even if it would go in one.

[Justayellowbadge]

toasty said:

Frankly I'd prefer they spend enough to protect the watch and save the rest of the money.

Would you specify it if the box was optional at £200 more?

I suspect many of us have spent similar to 'complete the set' on pieces picked up without box and papers. I certainly have.

[Mr Roper]

I'm having box envy.

[Johnniem]

http://cdn3.volusion.com/hgrwp.cgupr/v/vspfiles/ph...

The box for my Visconti 'Divina Proporzione' fountain pen. Sorry, it's from the web so you need to click to link!

[RevsPerMinute]

I have never understood the importance of the box. It means absolutely nothing to me.

I seem to recall the late great George Daniels would supply his masterpieces in a bog standard jewellery box. He could never understand why anyone would need more.

[subsea99]

My Korsbec oceaneer came in in this box 😬

[Matt172]

[benny.c]

Take a look at the "6B - H↑S9 - MK2" pilots chronograph by 6b Watches. If you click on presentation options 1,2 & 3 you'll see some beautifully crafted packaging that has obviously had lots of thought put into it.

http://www.6bwatches.com/presentation---option-1

http://www.6bwatches.com/presentation---option-2

http://www.6bwatches.com/presentation-option-3

[traffman]

I like the look of the Panerai packaging and the Hublot packaging.

The older Rolex boxes and packaging were ste

[gregd]

Being a Bond geek I quite like this..



The Speedmaster Moonwatch packaging is nice too.

[eccles]

One of my favourite watch boxes is an old,1964, Seiko Silverwave (their first waterproof watch)box. Rare as the proverbial etc and seems to sum up the time.

[nikaiyo2]

The Corum Bubble ltd edition boxes were amazing

[Miocene]

I love those Corum boxes. As someone mentioned above, the current Speedmaster Moonwatch packaging is fantastic (though the price did go up £500 on its release...)

[toasty]

Apart from it being nice 'wrapping paper', does anyone actually use the box for anything other than putting it in the back of a wardrobe in case you ever need to sell the watch?

[battered]

Yes. I have about 4 watches I use regularly. None are especially expensive (indeed the opposite) but they live in the boxes in a drawer. Some of the boxes are just a cardboard box in which the watch lives, wrapped around a balled-up sock.

[benny.c]

toasty said:

Apart from it being nice 'wrapping paper', does anyone actually use the box for anything other than putting it in the back of a wardrobe in case you ever need to sell the watch?

No. I'll gladly take a discount on a watch to buy it without all the packaging. I'll bet the fancy new Speedmaster packaging costs them all of £20 to buy in though.

Edited by benny.c on Thursday 10th November 10:07