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Shaped a coat hangar into an open ended rectangle and threaded it through one of a plastic bag to get two prongs sticking out of it. Then tied two lengths of string to it, one to the bottom and one to the bag handle opposite the coat hangar.
Hoiked it over the fence and lowered it down with the string tied to the bottom of the bag. Grabbed the two prongs through the fence to lower the bag opening down behind the box, using the string tied to the handle to open it a bit.
Pulled the prongs back through the fence to get the box in the bag, then lifted the whole thing back over with the string tied to the handle. Clearly spent too much time thinking about this, but the suspense was overwhelming...
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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...