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Nice. Do the warranty papers indicate where it was sold at all?
Wondering if it was stolen from a shop or something.
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If stolen, more likely to be from a customer who had just left the store and got trailed.
Have heard some places recommend to people that they wear the watch when they walk out of the store rather than leave it in its box as bag snatches aren’t unheard of.
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Papers say its from the Oeding-Erdel Jewelier in Münster – not sure if retailers buy/move stock between them, or if it has just taken a long journey to end up by a railway siding in Kilburn
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Weird way for me to re-enter LFGSS after more than a decade offline, but I got quite into watches last year after being gifted a special one for a landmark birthday. Stumbled across this forum by chance afterwards and have been checking in on it ever since...
All of which is to say my curiosity got the better of me and I had to have a go at solving the mystery of the Rolex box. Went up there this morning and managed to retrieve it. And.. Empty!
The box itself was toast – I guess several weeks of sitting around in the wet didn't do it much good – but warranty papers etc were all still in there and sealed. I've kept hold of them for now, but don't really know what they'd be good for...