chocomallo
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Same here. The trend with new watches is these giant elaborate boxes, but you can’t wear a box.
Yet there seems to be a lot of value place on a box when reselling a watch. Thanks for your comment.
What do you consider the meaning of box and papers?
Do you consider a Patek with an Extract from the Archives as constituting “with papers”? I think not because that can be had at any time. So if a Patek has an Extract plus a box, how is this more valuable than a Patek without both other than the mere cost...
Certificate from the factory
Is just a proof the watch is legit (i.e. not stolen, with the correct dial etc. as it came from the factory). It has value but we should create a new category: - no papers - with factory certificate - with original papers The box indeed does not mean anyt...
Same here. The trend with new watches is these giant elaborate boxes, but you can’t wear a box.
Yet there seems to be a lot of value place on a box when reselling a watch. Thanks for your comment.
I'm also for the classical definition of "with papers" to mean "with all the documents the watch was originally sold with"...
In any event, a grey dealer/auction house listing a watch "with papers" should make it clear if they only mean with an extract from the archives....in doubt, simple ask ;-) Cheers.
