As I will be on a motorcycle I take a watch that's light, I can swim with and battery operated/solar as I don't wear a watch on the bike.
so my CWC diver, solar Seiko or citizen on a NATO [dries in no time if I have been swimming and still looks neat].
I don't worry about the cost of the watch I have possessions insurance and travel insurance.
but I really don't see much more chance of being mugged in a airbandb in Nice or Montpelier [Marseille maybe] than in London.
when I stayed in the Marseille youth hostel a young lad got mugged and badly beaten by a Moroccan gang on the beach.
that's the only holiday trouble I've ever know.
beach in Nice
it fitted in with the Monaco boat drinks
and this one on another more recent trip