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I think it's akin to the Tiffany's blue boxes, brand recognition; not so much the model.

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UN Maxi Marine Ti
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Aerospace Ti
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Titan Black Rolex DSOD Honeycomb Dial

Yes, Very nice!

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Past: BlackBird, Navi World, SA, Rolex DJII, IWC Yacht Club
Present: CE, DSSD
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Enezdez, looks like you got a little SHIFT happy in that paragraph!

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Past: BlackBird, Navi World, SA, Rolex DJII, IWC Yacht Club
Present: CE, DSSD
Future: Changes daily

For the price of the mulliner I would expect a box of that caliber.

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Breitling Navitimer 1461 jours silver dial with dark glazed cognac alligator strap

The inner and outer boxes for the B4Bs are different.

Also the bakelite inner boxes are by no means cheap. My Pam and IWCs look wooden (I'd heard so much about the Panerai pear wood box), but both are the absolute thinnest veneer I've seen. And seem to be on "metal finished" plastic.

I do agree the intitial presentation is cool and all, but after that the entire thing goes in one of my watch box storage boxes for safe keeping. Out of sight, out of mind.

Again though, the Bakelite boxes aren't, in my view anyway, cheap or particularly insubstantial. There is nothing special about a Rolex box. The IWC boxes were all look and no substance. Same for the Breguet. If I want a dresser display box, I'd just buy one or have one made. That way I can choose if and when to spend the extra jack.

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SHARKMAN

To me the box is just the icing on the cake of a package. But as RJ and others have said I'd rather have a watch come in a paper bag than in some incredibly ornate box that pushed the price up considerably.

That said, I like the Breitling Bakelite box a lot, and it has improved immeasurably over the years. A few years ago the hinges were prone of failure, but nowadays they are very nice indeed. I also have an unused walnut Bentley box much like the one FEAR posted, although mine was designed for a standard gold Bentley. It's a very nice thing.

In terms of other manufacturers, Blancpain make some of the nicest wood boxes around (provided you buy something other than the Fifty Fathoms of course). Most of them have superb marquetry work on them and are designed to be used a humidor, which is great if you usually just chuck your watch boxes in a cupboard after you buy them.

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Driver8

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I have two wooden breitling boxes.
One that the AD give me a B4B box, and the other when I bought the navi 125. That navi came with a bakelite box but when I said "always the same box, I have the closet full of the same boxes" they changed the box. And told me that the box is for breitling's gold watches.

I've seen the emergency box and is really nice, and also the tourbillon, and there's another one, for B4B mark VI complications 29 that has a watchwinder inside.

"B4B mark VI complications 29 that has a watchwinder inside."
Now that is genius!!!

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Past: BlackBird, Navi World, SA, Rolex DJII, IWC Yacht Club
Present: CE, DSSD
Future: Changes daily

Cuervo Y Sobrinos watches come in a wooden cigar humidor box. I'm not a smoker but that's a pretty cool idea.

http://www.cuervoysobrinos.com/en/cuerv ... midor.html

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Mark VI Complications 29 box with watchwinder