For those who purchase grey market watches, is buying with the original box, papers, and warranty card a non- negotiable or more of a nice to have?

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If it’s new I expect box and papers. For used, it factors in the price and expect box/papers to have a premium over ones without.

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Nice to have. Definitely better with all the paperwork but if I found the watch I want w/o box and papers, I'm OK but to each their own.

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If you’re talking about a Rolex for example, you don’t need any papers to get it serviced. You take the watch in and it gets sent out for servicing. Some even say by having it serviced by a Rolex Service Center with that paperwork would serve as a form of authentication if you didn’t get original papers. Without original papers your risk is in relying on the seller’s authentication process to ensure you’re not getting a fake, but even with original papers there’s still a risk of fraudulence.

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