Yes. Retailers remove watches from boxes to display. Most of the time when the sell one they grab the wrong box. Sometimes it's not even a matching model.

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Thank you for putting my mind at ease

 

very common, I bought a casio before and the box was too small. Found out after I bought another one a year later

 

I'd say since it is from an authorized dealer, you're good. Sometimes this might happen on ebay. This is a bit more dubious, as there are often fakes on there but you can usually tell because even their boxes/tins are fake and easy to spot.

 

Yes, It was an authorised dealer. I found them on the store locator web page of the Casio official website of Europe.

 

If it is a special edition sometimes you get the original box, otherwise they reach into the drawer and give you whatever is handy. I got a really nice Baby G tin once by simply asking for it instead of the black and red one.

 

Was the watch you bought supposed to come with the baby g tin ? Or did you ask for that specific tin even though that wasn't the original tin for your watch ?

 

This can happen - not just with display models. Could also be on Casio's end. I had the same with a Citizen.

 

My G-Shocks and Duros have all come in cheap cardboard boxes. I've never bothered to check for matching serial numbers.

 

Yes, it happened to me on an online purchase direct from Casio. Bought a Casioak metal and they sent me a box for a regular Casioak. They are probably the same thing, so it was no big, but I just noticed the sticker on the box with the model number was wrong.

 

I would (and have before) ask the retailer to provide the correct box

 

I would have to but I couldn't do so since I bought it online through an authorised dealer not from where I live, since the local authorised dealer where I live sell g shocks with a significant mark up. The price for a standard casioak is close to 150USD while the price from the authorised dealer from Russia was about 115 USD including shipping.

 

I recently purchased a Seiko from a local jewelry store (authorized dealer). It took the sales person 30 minutes to locate the correct box. They pulled out nearly all their Seiko boxes from under the display counters.

They seemed surprised when I asked to get the correct box for the watch. I think they were going to give me the first box the watch fit in if I had not requested the correct box.


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I had to return a Ti Square TB to my AD for store credit 5 weeks after buying it a couple of years ago because they couldn't give me the right box for it. The day I bought it they couldn't find the right box so they said they will ask their Casio rep to send one in for me but that obviously didn't work out.

This happens a lot in AD's that have high turnover staff. Not only with G Shock but with other brands as well. G Shock boxes in particular look a lot alike for certain series and for staff that don't know any better they a box is just a box and most of the time their customers are non-wis and don't realize their boxes are wrong.

 

I had to return a Ti Square TB to my AD for store credit 5 weeks after buying it a couple of years ago because they couldn't give me the right box for it. The day I bought it they couldn't find the right box so they said they will ask their Casio rep to send one in for me but that obviously didn't work out.

The watch was fine otherwise?

 

I had something similar once when I bought a second-hand Pentax SFX slr camera, from a dealer.
It came with a brand new box plus documentation for the updated SFXn model.
I would've liked the original but I didn't mind too much.
Of course it would have been a different story had I purchased a new one and there was no box etc. to go with it.

 

very common from retail stores, as eddie said, the workers dont care and see a box as a box that will prob get instantly binned like a fast food wrapper.
i once bought 3 of the same model but got 3 diff. boxes, had to point out the right ones in their box cupboard to the clerk, who prob thought i was just being difficult for fun lol

 

A w rong box is also a sign of counterfeit G-Shock. G-Shock is having a major problem with the dozens of Chinese websites on the internet selling counterfeit's. If you have a plastic cover on your crystal it is counterfeit. If there's one with a red line on the back cover with or even without the red line it is counterfeit. G-Shock doesn't use plastic covers on their watches. The true barcode is printed on the box that they come in. Not on a sticker attached to a string to the watch. Beware of cheap Chinese counterfeits. I was a victim and then I educated myself. Buy a counterfeit. Buy an authentic. Switch the counterfeit into the authentic tin and box. Return and get your money back. Do you think the employees check to see if it's the real thing. They're tough to spot. Even for the experts some get by. Best way is to weigh the watch. G-Shock posts on the internet the specific weight of their watches. Weighing them is the best way to authenticate your watch.

 

It's quite common in Europe to see a barcode printed on a sticker and stuck to the tag. And I purchased my watch from an authorised dealer and none of the watches that I have purchased had the red sticker or a plastic protector on the casebacks and dials. The thickness of the watch is also a dead giveaway

 

I've had this happen while ago. I ordered the gwb5600bc-1dr at a shop here in Australia instead when it arrived it was the gwb5600bc with the negative display in the wrong box with the wrong instructions. It a took bit work but I finally got thinks sorted out

 

As long the box contain a gshock and not a soap or a rock ( true history, not happened to me) i don't see any problem.

 

When I ordered my PRX-7000T Manaslu Protrek from Japan, I was expecting it to arrive in the typical green-lacquered wooden box used for Manaslu watches. Instead, it arrived in that tiny black leatherette-type box that many Gs are shipped in from Japan. I was very disappointed as a Manaslu SHOULD come in really nice packaging. (it would be similar to getting an MR-G in a very cheap box, unexpectedly)

After some communication with the seller, they sent the correct box to me at no charge. And a nice one, it was. It was only proper for a watch of that price. Now, @kubr1ck is the proud owner of the watch (and box).

 

Not gonna lie, T4P, I bought your watch for the box.

 

For a G-Shock, I will not get too fussed up about the box unless it was from a high end line or a limited edition.