# Securing wristwatches: the collection in the cabinet, the everyday piece off the wrist

> Secure wristwatches: costly pieces in the anchored cabinet, papers beside them, the worn watch is not a badge of the collection.
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A wristwatch you wear on your wrist every day shows the street what might still be lying in the house. The collector pieces belong, after the evening, in the anchored certified safe. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) the watch sits with what is small and has a price at once.

## How it leaves the house

In the local EinbruchsRadar up to August 2026 a watch stands in 217 cases with a loot list. Jewelry sits even higher on the same list. The second way is not a nighttime burglary: in London, robbery at the wrist is a situation picture of its own, and collectors leave the good watch at home. Jim Ratcliffe has said in public that he no longer wears one in the city. The documented house case with jewelry and watches is Kensington, December 2019, the house of Tamara Ecclestone, cleared out while she was in Lapland. The placing of the sums is in the overview.

## What time does to it

Leather dries, steel takes on moisture, gaskets and luminous compound age. A cabinet keeps the watch from being carried off and can still ruin it if it sits damp for good or stays hot for a long time after a fire. You replace the silica gel before it is saturated. Watches with a leather strap do not lie for months in the dark damp.

## Where to put it

Everyday piece and collection stay two decisions. What has a number, a certificate or a name lies in the cabinet whose grade matches the sum the insurer names to you in writing. You choose the spot so a guest does not see it on the first walk-through. Photos of the case back with the number stay with you and do not go online under your real name.

## The papers

Guarantee, extract and invoice lie in the document cabinet, not in the watch box. Without these sheets the watch in a claim is a used piece, and the price becomes a dispute. You send the insurer an item list with purchase date and number before you set the level of the cabinet.


## Häufige Fragen

### Do a nightstand and a drawer suffice?

For the watch you put on again tomorrow, yes. For pieces with a certificate and a price you want replaced, you need an anchored certified safe and the papers in a second place.

### What does EinbruchsRadar say about watches?

In the local status up to August 2026 a watch appears in 217 cases with a loot list. These are apartment and house burglaries from police reports, not a complete statistic.

### May the good watch come along on a trip?

The everyday watch, yes. The collection stays at home. What you take with you is the piece whose loss the policy does not cover.