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Just to put your mind at rest about sending watches to Germany, here is Royal Mail's list of prohibited products not permitted in the mail under any circumstances:
Lithium batteries and equipment containing lithium batteries
All live animals, except bees, leeches, silkworms, parasites and destroyers of noxious insects intended for the control of those insects and exchanged between officially recognized institutions, flies of the family Drosophilidae for biomedical research exchanged between officially recognized institutions.
Meat and edible meat offal
Flesh of dogs, cats, foxes, badgers and monkeys.
Vegetable products:
Live trees and other plants; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
Live or dead plants conveyed via EMS.
Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
Cannabis resin.
Opium
Prepared foodstuffs; beverages, spirits and vinegar; tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes
Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
Preparations of any kind containing methyl alcohol.
Meat prepared from horses and other solipeds, except from their small intestines.
Beverages, spirits and vinegar
Absinth and similar products as well as the raw materials intended for the manufacture of such beverages (essences and extracts), liquids with an alcohol content of 82° and above.
Mineral products
Salt; sulphur; earths and stone; plastering materials; lime and cement
Earth from non-European countries and containing parts of plants or humus, except for peat.
Ores, slag and ash
Uranium ores.
Thorium ores.
Products of the chemical or allied industries
Inorganic chemicals; organic or inorganic compounds of precious metals, of rare-earth metals, of radioactive elements or of isotopes
Gas or inflammable gaseous compounds; gases which are readily inflammable on contact with water.
Spontaneously inflammable materials, such as materials with a flash-point below 21°C.
Poisonous substances:
Considered to be poisonous substances are those which, under existing legislation and decrees, must be marked as such. Corrosive substances.
Acids, bases, lachrymogenic products and metal salts and corrosives as well as slightly volatile sulphur compounds.
White or yellow phosphorus.
Radioactive substances, which under the internal anti-radiation legislation (Strahlenschutzverordnung) of the Federal Republic of Germany require a special transport licence. For their dispatch by air, the current IATA provisions must also be observed.
Organic chemicals:
DDT and products to which DDT has been added.
Liquids with an alcohol content of 82% and above.
Anaesthetics.
Pharmaceutical products
Preparations of any kind containing methyl alcohol. Parts of ungulate animals not for human consumption. Anaesthetics.
Certain noxious viruses.
Explosives; pyrotechnic products; matches; pyrophoric alloys; certain combustible preparations
Photographic or cinematographic products
Spontaneously inflammable materials, readily inflammable materials, such as materials with a flashpoint below 21°C, liquids with an alcohol content of 82% or above; explosive and inflammable materials and articles loaded with explosive materials.
Propellant powders.
Prepared explosives other than propellant powders.
Igniting devices of any kind.
Firework components of any kind.
Matches manufactured using white or yellow phosphorus.
Photographic plates, negatives, etc which can be used to counterfeit coins and documents and to produce printed papers and reproductions resembling bank notes.See prohibited articles in Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans below
Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal; cork and articles of cork; manufactures of straw, of esparto or of other plaiting materials; basketware and wickerwork
Wood and articles of wood; wood charcoal
Dry vine wood.
Used vine poles.
Used hives without bees.
Pulp of wood or of other fibrous cellulose material; waste and scrap of paper or paperboard; paper and paperboard and articles thereof
Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans
Printed papers and reproductions resembling bank notes.
Articles contrary to the Constitution, means of propaganda and sabotage.
Publications, sound or visual media, illustrations or representations which incite to wars of aggression, means of propaganda contrary to the Constitution, badges of organisations contrary to the Constitution, defamation of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, of the State and its symbols and of the constitutional bodies, propaganda intended to cause unrest in the Bundeswehr (Federal army). Glorification of violence, incitement to racial hatred, endangering of young people.
Publications, sound or visual media, etc, which describe violence against human beings in a cruel and inhuman manner and which thereby glorify or underrate such violence or which incite to racial hatred, insofar as they are intended not only for the personal use of the addressee, or for retail or mail order sale; other publications which are obviously likely seriously to endanger the morals of children and minors or which have been placed on the list of publications which are a moral danger to young people, by retail or mail order sale.
Pornographic publications, sound and visual media, etc, insofar as they violate criminal provisions and are intended not only for the personal use of the addressee, or for retail or mail order sale.
Items bearing political or religious inscriptions on the address side.
Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
Coins, medals. Coins withdrawn from circulation or which have become valueless as a means of payment or which were counterfeited or faked in 1850 or later. Medals counterfeited or faked in 1850 or later.
Base metals and articles of base metal
Aluminium and articles thereof
Aluminium powder or dust.
Zinc and articles thereof
Zinc powder or dust.
Other base metals; cermets; articles thereof
Magnesium powder or dust.
Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and accessories of such articles
Nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery and mechanical appliances; parts thereof
Plates, moulds, blocks or negatives which can be used to counterfeit coins and documents and to produce printed papers and reproductions resembling bank notes.
Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers; television image and sound recorders and reproducers and parts and accessories of such articles. See prohibited articles in Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans
Arms and ammunition; parts and accessories thereof
Firearms or similar items; small arms, automatic-loading firearms, firing devices, sharp or thrusting weapons; essential parts of firearms; warning weapons and weapons containing irritants, infra-red sighting units, flick knives, knives with retractable blades; steel rods, coshes or knuckle-dusters;
ammunition, projectiles containing narcotics or tear gases and irritants.
Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories thereof
Toy weapons the importation of which is excluded under arms legislation.
Video games.
See prohibited articles in Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans
Works of art, collectors' pieces and antiques
Money / legal tender
Coins, medals, also see prohibited articles in Printed books, newspapers, pictures and other products of the printing industry; manuscripts, typescripts and plans and Natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones, precious metals, metals clad with precious metal and articles thereof; imitation jewellery; coin
I can't see 'watches' on there.