A few years ago I bought a Pelican case for transporting my camera equipment, I recently changed up some of my gear so I had to order replacement foam to customize the insides and ended up with a pretty big chunk of unused foam left over, I chanced on an old unused wood keepsake box in my attic and one thing led to another. Very happy with my new set up, all Panerais in the custom box and my non Panerai collection in my 20 count.
Here is the exterior:
And the interior:
Those strap inserts are deep and hold up to eight straps on top of each other. Cool thing about this set up, other than being dirt cheap, is that it can be customized however you want it to hold your particular collection and combination of straps/tools/watches.
I just happened to have the stuff lying around so it was free, but here is what I estimate it would cost you:
Wood box: flea market or any run of the mill home decor store: 20 USD
Pelican style foam, 10 USD
Watch cushions: free if you ask your watch dealer (watches come back from servicing in similar stuff) or just use the spare foam you cut out. Otherwise buy em online for about 4 USD a pop.
Total price all in is a whopping 56 USD!
Took me all of 9 minutes to finish the box. It actually took me longer to photograph, upload the pics, and create this post.
more pics to come!
