There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
Keeping the boxes is less a monetary move and more the manifestation of a low-grade hoarder instinct. I recommend reading Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, to work on on this, and to avoid being an enabler of others' hoarding instincts by catering to their desire for watches with boxes. If you can grok the meaning and sense of liberation behind Kondo's recommendation to trash most family photographs, getting rid of watch boxes is a breeze.
I'm less concerned about the number of watch boxes that I have, and am more concerned by the number of watches. With over 30, I may want to trim the herd a bit.