Well, having spent a couple of hours searching through my watch stuff, I came across all sorts of old catalogues and boxes as well as a few old tropics and a couple of corfam straps. These had been taken off my watches when they were bought in the mid 80s. No one was buying mechanical watches back then and the corfam imitation leather straps were no longer popular. So off they went, unworn, in favour of metal bracelets. Fortunately, the corfam for my Derek Bell was still labelled with the date and place of purchase (Nov 85 in Antwerps) - so on it went! Now it truly is as it was when it came out of the box! I like that.

Now I just need to identify which watch to put my big hole corfam on!

Roger