May sound like a silly question, but why hide it?
I’ve hidden a watch in the house and now I can’t find it . Five months so far , that’s beaten my previous record ...... !
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May sound like a silly question, but why hide it?
I recently bought a steel Daytona 16520 that wasn't hidden, but placed on top of a wardrobe while decorating.
It was then thought lost until found there ten years later.
Won’t help with your current situation, but whenever I stash anything now- I take a photo of the location.
I love it!
I remembered last night during a conversation with some friends that I was going through my watch boxes (I keep all the boxes separate to the watches themselves; the watches being in larger storage/display boxes or in the safe etc.) to check the paperwork/dates/serials etc. and came across a Submariner 14060 that I must have bought a few years earlier that had been put along with all the other boxes and been forgotten all about - it was a very nice surprise.
It's just a matter of time...
It was indeed - I had quite a few assorted 14060's at the time, so that's my excuse for not being on top of things. Around the same period I lent my 14060 Swiss only dial to a work colleague who was thinking about buying a Rolex, and had forgotten about that for a while until he kindly wore it into work one day and advised that he had just ordered a new Blue Steel/Gold Sub.
An old hazy pic of the 2 liners at that time that I've just found, now all long gone - I think I maybe had three of the 4 liners too at the time, and still have a couple of them and my ex has one :( ;)
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It's just a matter of time...
I had builders in , quite reputable but I was taking no chances ..I was burgled
30 years ago and have still not got over it ...!
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I forgot I'd hidden my Explorer a while ago ... so when I went to put it on my first thought was we'd been robbed but obviously no sign of any break in then I start suspecting other people who'd been in the house ... until finally I realised what I'd done; I'd stashed it at the back of a shelf as a short term hide as we had tradesmen in the house ... wasn't a fun 60 minutes ...
Is it safer to have several watches in one hitting spot or one in each of several?
You could bury them in random spots in the garden. And have cryptic clues to the hiding places like treasure island. What fun that would be.
I prefer a decent safe myself - drilled and tapped into cement floor, from the inside.
Martyn
My brother in law in Perth had $30K (legit savings) in ozzy dollars in a safe sunk in the floor in a friends garage last year and thieves broke in the garage while his friend was on a fishing trip and dug the safe up and had the money away, strange inside knowledge perhaps, never found out who or got it back.
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Gosh .. memories, my uncle long since passed buried 5 k in his garage then had a stroke , thought he was going to die but had massive communication with his children .. they found the money , he recovered .. then he had another stroke ... same problem .. he died they dug up the garden without a result ...
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Missed out .. problems ...
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It's just a matter of time...
I always thought that Watchfinder ad with the Submariner sat in the shed/garage was a bit rediculous but maybe it wasn't so far fetched.
I used to hide my collection before going on holidays, but the hassle of spending precious hours on it - instead of packing holiday stuff - eventually made me hire a safety deposit box in a nearby bank instead.
Now i can't find a Phillips auction catalogue - i believe the latest, with McQueen's Heuer Monaco in it - which i do recollect receiving, and now annoyingly i just can't find it! Can't even recall hiding it from the wife, it was only £30ish..arrrggghh
There is a historical precedent with stashing your valuables...
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Last year I was in the airport on the way to Barbados and had that thought that what if we didn't come home.
Where the watches were hidden likely wouldn't be found so I text my sister from the airport giving their whereabouts.
It only confirmed her suspicions that I was nuts.
One for the detectorists on here:
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Well it had gone thru my head thinking had I not told them & the house is sold for their inheritance,the new owner would effectively have a house 50k below what they paid for the house.
So not "nuts" really is it,why is it nuts to hide an expensive collection of watches and not let someone know!.If they knew you were into watches and never discussed the selling of them,maybe they would wonder just where they are,and save a lot of ripping up floorboards or calling all the local banks to hopefully find anything.
I read recently that an "hoarder" had died,the house sold & over 300k of items found!.
Nuts he didnt tell anyone is what it is.
I “lost” my first mechanical watch, an Oris TT1, and only found it again after 3 years when I rediscovered it in my secret hiding place that I’d created in a gap under a built in wardrobe.
It was so secret I forgot I’d even created it
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My wife regularly puts things away in odd places for safekeeping (her words not mine) and then forgets where she has put them.
At various times these have included her purse, my wallet (why?), several items of jewellery (one of which was worth quite a bit), cash, odd credit cards and assorted paperwork.
The subsequent search and rescue operations have occasionally become somewhat tiresome .
I am surprised I have never posted this in the Dear Wife thread in BP, now I think about it.
Simon
I have a safe securely bolted to both the wall and the floor.
But.
Many years ago i sold a car for cash on a sat morning. I didn't have a safe at that time, and banks not open until Monday, so I decided to pop it into the roof void as a hiding place. Up the step ladder, lifted the hatch, and dropped the wad of cash down the middle of a stud wall .
Lucky it landed on top of an electrical socket box so was able to remove the box and retrieve the notes. I had visions of having to break into the wall.
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Squirrels propagate oak trees by forgetting where they buried acorns .. random fact .
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