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Quality recommendations for travel cases, rolls, pouches

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What are you using for travel? Im looking for options for 3 or less watches, quality made and functions well. And how many watches do you usually travel with?
 
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I have a couple of the Breitling single watch travel cases and a generic two watch case of similar style, that I got on Amazon. They work great packed inside a suitcase. How many to take depends on trip length and what I'll be doing. The ability to take 0-4 plus the one on my wrist has always worked for me.
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I use these

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I bring 2-3 total, wear 1 on the plane. I have both a Squale and Farer travel cases that came with my purchases, or I'll wrap one in a sock in my carry-on.

I like the look of the pod cases if packing 1-2. Seem like decent protection and standard size for reasonable prices. Big fan of rolls if you aren't packing bracelets. I don't have a specific recommendation as I haven't bought either. The Nick Mankey rolls are top of my list, but I haven't seen one in stock for 2 years...

The hexagon pillow 3's from C&B or Delugs would be my high quality purchase if I could justify the price. As it is, those cost as much or more than the watches I bring usually. So unlikely to get either.
 
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I prefer the "drawer" style travel case over anything else. Rolls and anything that lacks any crush protection are automatically out. I usually don't take my watch off until I'm ready to get in line for security at the airport, so something with internal pillows that takes a ton of time to use and has multiple pieces is a giant PITA. Anything where the watch case could hit the inside of a zipper is out.

These solve all of those problems. You can't easily crush them, the watches can't hit each other, it can't fold over backwards on itself and possibly have one of the watches fall out, and you don't have to spend two minutes unsnapping pillows and then put the entire case down while you fiddle with the watch and one of said pillows. Pull the drawer out a bit, slide the watch in, close it up, put it in the bag, done.

To me it makes all other travel case designs seem stupid, at least unless you need like a Pelican case style for some reason.

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I'm with you. Take three, always wearing one of those. I haven't traveled recently, so as yet I've not yet picked up any travel case(s). But I saw some rolls posted (Amazon?) on one of these watch sites. They were not expensive. But I like the fact that they'd work just as well for a bracelet as a strap. It seems you don't need to spend much to 'secure' your watches while on the road.
 
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I've got a rather nice leather watch roll that came with a watch from Houtman (Aussie micro-brand)
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...and this custom travel case for 3 watches (they do other sizes) from Ali Express
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(that's not the brand, they're my initials!)

plus two single watch travel pods from Tissot, and a few rolls/small cases that came with other micro-brands and even some Russian watches.
 
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I use a nice watch roll from Wolf: Heritage Watch Roll..
I bought in a Reddit and costed me less than $70, amazing quality for a reasonable price to keep my watches safe..
According to the link it retails at ÂŁ195 (US $240, R$1170)! You did well to get it for less than $70!
 
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I'm too paranoid to take more than one watch on vacation, and it stays on my wrist.

If I were to take more than one on vacation, it would go in a small Apache (Harbor Freight much cheaper, but just as good version of the Pelican) case with any electronics I bring.

These cases come in multiple sizes and colors.

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Bumping up this thread. I'm looking to get a "soft" watch roll, myself, maybe even two of them, but I want to get something that's high quality and not crazy-expensive. So far, these 6-count rolls from Monochrome seem to look pretty high-quality and, while they're exactly "budget-friendly", they're not absurdly expensive, either:


Anybody have any suggestions on something similar to this style/quality, that might be somewhat less-expensive than these rolls from Monochrome?