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The warranty book is stamped with the original watches information and the COSC certificate has the original watches serial number. Unless you're going to go to the expense of renumbering the watch I don't see how that's promoting fakes.
Slightly naive stand point. It's not the renumbering of the watch that would be done to match the papers. You clearly don't understand what can be done with paper and ink/type nowadays if you have the original document.
I can never understand someone buying a high end watch and destroying the credentials that make it different from the run of the mill stuff. Especially when one document confirms it as, no doubt what you will claim it to be, a genuine Breitling and the other confirms its accuracy. If I met you in the street and said "nice watch" and you told me it was a Breitling Colt II, if I then said "it looks like a fake", without the papers how are you going to convince me of its authenticity?
You, having offloaded the papers that proves it as genuine, to some Tom, Dick or Harry, are going to be stuck to convince me you have something of value on your wrist. Of course I, seeing certain marks and the positions of certain numbers on the case, would know it was real. But that's because I know what to look for. If I didn't have that knowledge, you would be hard pressed to convince me of its authenticity.
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The idea is for someone with a Colt II, missing the original paperwork and boxes, to have an opportunity to buy something to keep their watch in. The paperwork will never match their watch but the owners manual and other pieces not model specific might be nice to have.
The box I can go with but the argument for the papers is ludicrous. Manuals, COSC certificates, Dealer Cards and even practice slide rules are available, at least in the UK, free of charge from BUK. I know, I have asked them to send them. As for a warranty book, you will not get a replacement one but here's the rub. For those in the know, and who can manipulate print and colour the facility to get a warranty book with all the right numbers except for one (Serial number) is where the market is.
You're right vintage, ad hoc paperwork will never match the watch of an honest person like you, me and the majority of others, except if we actually happen to own a watch when we see "lost" papers for sale, but to those whose occupation is forgery and uttering, an original warranty book is a "gift". You have to remember that the forgery isn't the crime. For example, anyone can practice a signature. It's the uttering it as the genuine article that constitutes the crime.
However, sadly you have sent it to the bay. Don't give them the opportunity old boy. As Alan says shred the COSC (they owner who's lost their original will get a new one FOC) and shred the warranty book, it's not worth the paper it's written on except to you who has the genuine watch and the low life who might use it to their advantage and compromise you and me.
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Keep the stuff, it's what makes a Breitling a Breitling, or are you so pressed for a few sheets of the folding that you need to sell?
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