It's one he is looking forward to immensely.
Willocks, a South Otago farmer, says he hopes to get a special cabinet to house a new family possession - one of which all the family are especially proud.
Willocks and sister Linda Begg and the rest of the wider Willocks family are the owners of an All Black cap earned by Robert and Linda's father, Charlie.
Charlie Willocks was part of the great Otago Ranfurly Shield teams of the late 1940s.
He teamed up with Lester Harvey as locks for both Otago and the All Blacks.
Harvey came from a Central Otago farm and played for Matakanui, while Willocks was brought up on the family farm just out of Balclutha and played for Clutha.
The duo so complemented each other they were known as "bacon and eggs".
The pair's playing careers were affected by World War 2.
Willocks did not go to war but stayed behind to look after the family farm and did not make his first-class debut until he was 25.
However, he quickly made his presence felt on the paddock, making his All Black debut against Australia in 1946.
He toured Australia in 1947 and then two years later teamed up with Harvey as part of a sizeable Otago contingent on the long tour to South Africa.
The duo played all the tests together, except for the second test, when Willocks was unavailable because of a sore shoulder he picked up when a train crashed after the match against Rhodesia.
After that tour, rugby went on the back-burner for the South Otago man and farming and family became a priority. He had played five tests and 17 games for the All Blacks.
To show what a different game it was back then, Willocks, a lock, stood 1.85m tall and weighed just 90kg.
New All Black lock Brodie Retallick is 2.04m tall and weighs 117kg.
Robert Willocks said his father often talked about games and friends from his playing days.
"I never saw Dad play but he certainly talked a bit about it. Vic Cavanagh used to come down with a few other boys and they used to go fishing together," Robert said.
"They'd sit down here and have a drink or two. As a young boy I used to listen in on it."
His father died in 1991 and the New Zealand Rugby Union only started handing out caps again in 2009.
Those All Blacks from 1946 to 2009 are being awarded them retrospectively.
The Willocks family finally got the cap earlier this month in Dunedin at a special ceremony where other All Blacks such as Justin Marshall and Marc Ellis also received their caps.
He said lambing had got in the way of getting the cap in previous years but the ceremony earlier this month to co-incide with the test between the All Blacks and Springboks was pretty special.
Willocks did remark he would never wear the cap. His children could but he had not earned it - his dad had.
He intended to put the cap in a cabinet and it will take pride of place at the farm, which has been in the family for nearly 150 years.
