Holiday Watches!

My cousin is getting married in June, and I have been trying to decide which and how many watches to take with me. I have been thinking about this for a few weeks now, keeping it in the back of my mind and mulling it over. The wedding is an outdoor wedding on an island in Maine, so I need a dress watch for the ceremony, but it also has to be an outdoors sort of watch as there is a ferry crossing to get to the island. I also need a watch for the luncheon, reception, and picnic, so it looks like I will need more than one watch roll. I think there may be something wrong with me, because I seem to be more concerned with which watches than with which clothes. 🤣

Haha! Brilliant 👏  i feel your pain my friend 😢  Hope the wedding goes all and all the best 👍 

I used to take multiple watches, but now I just take 1 that fits the overall trip agenda. The downside is that if a black tie event breaks out with no warning, I’m screwed. 😂

One tough tool watch for travelling, one dress watch for the event.  The fewer things to worry about, the better.  If your dress watch might not survive a little spray/splashing on the ferry ride, time to sell it.

Oh, I can relate! My main travel watch roll holds 4 watches - plus one on my wrist. And I spend real time ahead of a trip deciding which watches to bring. I like variety, but also what conditions? what looks? what functions? 

It's also possible that over New Years when I went to visit family for a week, I brought the roll with 4 watches, one on my wrist and a two watch wallet along. Not that there's anything wrong with that... Right? It's not weird or anything? Right? 😛

All I know for sure is that I'm coming home with more then I took!

Wish I could choose one mate! One day.....

Not weird at all brother! I take a 6 space watch roll (for the hand luggage) and I throw the casio in the suitcase for a little adventure one it's own! And also one on the wrist... we have pretty similar tactics 

I'll show this comment to my wife! Thanks for the back up

2 weeks on the canary Islands 🇮🇨 think I've got all areas covered with this lot! 

Thanks for the affirmation! BTW, how do you like your Zodiac Super Sea Wolf. I really like the look of these (especially the fun colors like what you have) but curious how it wears and what the quality feels like? 

Don't take anything your not willing to risk losing. Airlines are not that reliable with luggage. Be careful where you show luxury in today's times.

like flashing a Rolex at a bar just off a Mexican resort for an example.

Picked this up just for holidays this summer 

Absolutely, this is the fun in watch collecting, matching outfits with watches.

For me holiday watches are all about colors. I try to wear different colored dials and straps and match it to the outfit. 

PERFECT for the summer 😎

Not really. 1 or 2 that will fit the bill. I just want to say that you have a very fine collection there.

San Martin Explorer homage from AliExpress. I chose the sterile face with PT5000 (eta clone). Quite well made for a £206 watch. Timeographer showed average +6/sec across 6 positions. Whilst I got it as a summer laugh it’s actually quite decent for what it is. 

Yep. I'm with you on this one. 

I just take my G-Shock then I have watch worries... but then I never go anywhere posh 🙄

Cheers for that mate! That's me googling now for the rest of the evening 

Cheers mate. Wish I had the will power to take 1 or 2 ! 

JOMW on you tube is killer for AliExpress watches  Your next stop on Google 

I hear you there. I just went on vacation for 2 weeks and just took the watch I planned to wear (my Tudor GMT because I NEED it to track the 3 hour difference to my home time zone ;). 

My wife now very tired of my hobby (obsession) kindly asked how many other watches I planned on bringing and even suggested ways to pack them safely (not knowing about the watch roll tab on my "watches I want/plan to buy" spreadsheet/ actually not knowing about the spreadsheet at all which is better for marital harmony).

I shared your worry with her and said I didn't want to lose any watches while we were moving around and she pointed out our house could be robbed while we're gone and I'd lose them all (and everything else). My takeaway was that the only thing I worried about being stolen from my house while we were gone were the watches.

I'm going on a cross-country motorcycle trip next week, and I've been thinking about this very question.

As all my watches are relatively affordable, and many of them are similar (three of my collection of six are Casio Duros), I don't think it'll be a problem.

At first I was thinking I'd just take one watch, but the more I think about it, the more I want to take three or more. 🙄

I’ve been travelling with one watch the past few years.  Generally, it’s been my BLNR or BPFF Bathyscaphe.  They are both durable, reliable, suitable for casual or formal events and wear comfortably for many days in a row. 

Ah, I foresee that same conundrum affecting me on a big trip in June.

The funny aspect is that I’ll likely buy a couple new watches while on the trip, making the decision of what to bring and what to leave even more tortured.  Don’t want to duplicate styles …but not decided what I’m likely to pickup … 

a fun and ridiculous thing to sweat over 😂

As of right now, I am thinking of just bringing one with me probably my Seiko SBP 143 because the customs officers always harass me because they think I'll sell the watches I bring into the country (mainly Poland and Canada). Need to buy a watch roll to help me pull off the collector identity.

Something durable and something more dressy. Never more them 2 total

Depends where I‘m going, but I have a skin diver I travel with everywhere and a G-Shock Gulfman. Then you always need a dress watch, just in case.

I care, however, I generally try to stick to the big three...

1.) Dress

2.) Casual

3.) Fun

Generally, this could be one watch or three. I do think about what I'm wearing in general, but I also think about where I'm going and if any of my pieces may attract too much of the wrong attention. 

I just saw the Casio Royale thats the watch I would take. Just take a few watch straps and you good!