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amanico
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Like you, I am not obsessed by box and papers.

When a nice watc comes with the box and the papers, ok, I will not cry... But if the same very nice Watch comes without, I will not pass on it.

An example?

This 6542, which came with its papers. Not the box, but while I am at it, why not trying to hunt the box, and the correct booklet?

I can tell you that it would have come without its papers, I would have jumped on it. At the beginning, though, I didn't even know it came with its papers.

The seller didn't give me this precision.

This is when I started to harass him, and after a while, that he told me that it came with its papers...

Another example, my 1675 Mini Dial: I didn't really care that it didn't come with the box and the papers, I just fell in love with its dial:

Now, on some references like the 1680 Red, for example, I would take it with the papers, just to be sure.

Just to be sure of what, by the way???

Send it for a service at Rolex, and if you don't specify it, they remove the hands and may even change the dial.

A " smart " ( please understand  A... H   e, here ) could take a white 1680 and change the dial for a red one, and welcome to the gang of the deceived!

So, I agree with you, box and papers most of the time bring nothing to a Watch, except maybe a better value when you re sell it ( but you will pay the premium, too when you buy, so... ), but that it is the thing which interests us, isn't it?

Best,

Nicolas.