How many watches do you take when you travel and how

I always travel with my Tudor GMT to be able to quickly jump timezones and if I'm going somewhere beachy I'll grab my Oris Aquis GMT too as a beater for the beach, snorkeling, etc. If I'm going back to the UK (and want to show my Dad some of my latest acquisitions) I'll put them in either a 2 piece or 3 piece case.

If I'm staying in hotels I always carry a travel lock and lock them away in my laptop bag because I don't trust myself to not forget putting stuff in a safe!

You didn't know how drunk your butler gets when Monday evening quarterbacking in his favorite bar? Man, I know the combination to the safe in which you keep your watches.

And the other safe too, the one with the other stuff. Dude you need to fire him and change the numbers....

Depends on my outfit lol. I check first the destinations, prepare my outfit to wear, and pair it with the right watch. As for my recent travel to Japan, I brought 2 watches with me. I always wear it except when I'm sleeping and going to shower. I brought a mini pouch to secure my jewelry.

Welcome -- nice to see someone not fully infected with the madness yet.

I suspect many if not most of the members here would pick their watches and then select the outfits that match...😗

I don't bring another watch besides the one I wear.
Depending on the nature of the trip, I either wear a pre-coaxial Seamaster non-dive watch or a Citizen dive watch if involving any possibility of water activity.

3 max - one for poolside/daytime, one for evening and one on standby should I lose the ability to mentally calculate my home timezone (or lose my phone 😀) Nothing valuable enough to cause me to take special precautions. After all, I go on holiday to relax, not to worry about watches.

One, it's too easy to misplace.or forget things in an unfamiliar place. Sorry, I know it's a boring answer.

The best way to minimise the danger of theft or loss is not to take any of your watches anywhere, ever.

Or you could enjoy them...

This is an interesting one for me - I travel abroad every 4 weeks with work and usually to some questionable places (West Africa, Jamaica, Middle East, Algeria, Mauritania etc....) joining research ships for month long trips. I have had things vanish from my luggage more times than I care to mention, and lose my luggage fairly regularly and if I am joining ship I sometimes don't see my luggage for a month. Anything of value is either kept on me or in my hand luggage, but even that gets rifled through on occasion. I would never dream of taking anything expensive on such trips. Holidays, yes, but not for work.

As such I have given this some careful thought and generally only take two or three watches away with me, and nothing that looks 'new' if that makes sense? I am a patina guy anyway, and to the casual observer I guess my travel watches don't look like they are up to much and don't really gain any attention. For flights and so on I wear one on each wrist set to home and destination time zones, so they are pretty safe. One goes in my hand luggage. Occasionally i will take a watch requiring attention away with me also - usually packed in an envelope in my hand luggage to give me something to fettle whilst offshore.

I have a deliberately used looking Tissot Sonorous PR516 which i purchased quite recently, which doubles up as my travel alarm. It was just what i was looking for, and i love the look of it. The bezel is incorrect being red faded to orange - although in my eyes looks better than original - and I know what it is even if nobody else does. I bought it as it was for this specific purpose. I also now use a lowly Seiko SQ100 for a bit of quartz reliability - again with an OTT patina to avoid attention.

I just take one watch, which I wear. I am there to enjoy vacation and not worry about if the other watches are safe.

One, goes with anything and I do believe its important to be stylish and proper in any occasion, either in a fancy restaurant or at a Ruby's.

Only one, and if it's vintage, I also carry my weatherproof pouch in my pocket so I can quickly hide it if it rains or I need to wash my hands. Works well for spotty neighborhoods too.

But if I am going to the sea, I would just take my Seiko Monster and not baby it.

I go back and forth on this question. I ALWAYS travel with my Apple Watch. It's on my wrist in the airports and if I'm working out. I'll frequently double-wrist if I think I'm going to need it. For instance, was pretty high up on my last outing - over 10K ft at times without a lot of time to acclimate, so i wanted to watch my O2. ( which was fine).

Usually I bring : 2 to 3 watches: 1. My Apple Watch; 2. Something mechanical for the flight usually set to the destination's timezone that I put on in-flight to help with jet-lag ( this really does help); 3. And if I"m bringing a third, it's because it fits the occasion in some way watch #2 won't always. Usually that third choice is a green Seamaster 300M since the green dial is so changeable in different lights. Or my strap-monster Panerai. Or a dress watch ( if either of those are watch #2 and I need a dressier piece). But on my last trip I brought my Speedy on the new bracelet w/the quick adjust. I was going to some patriotic sites in the west ( Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, Crazy Horse, etc. ) and I wanted to have it with me for reasons I can't exactly explain.