What enthusiasts are asking

Hamilton on the secondhand market

Every Hamilton listing our crawlers matched to a catalog reference on r/Watchexchange and WatchUSeek. A brand moves as one cluster, so a brand cut carries much less independent information than its count suggests, which is why most brands publish a range.

2026 SO FAR
Somewhere in +5.5% to +22.2%
29 watches · 328 asks · revises monthly
-1.4% to +12.3% vs the index
Measured against the whole index, on the same watches in the same pass.
The whole index
+6.9%
2026 so far · 1,281 matched watches

Enough watches for a range. A brand moves as one cluster, which costs a brand cut most of the independence its count suggests.

Year by year

Year by year change in asking prices, with 95% confidence intervals and the number of matched watches behind each reading.
YearChangeReading95% range
2026 so farrevisesRange only, no centre29 watches · 328 asks-1.4% to +12.3% vs the index+5.5% to +22.2%
2025Range only, no centre30 watches · 248 asks+1.1% to +12.5% vs the index+0.8% to +16.8%
2024Range only, no centre34 watches · 214 asks-5.5% to +4.8% vs the index-9.7% to +1.4%
2023Range only, no centre29 watches · 201 asks-5.1% to +8.8% vs the index-11.1% to +5.9%

Each year is compared with the one before it, over the watches listed in both. Nothing before 2022 is drawn: the older forum threads still standing are the ones nobody pruned, and the direction of that bias is unknown.

The closing-ask cross-check

Not enough to call it2026 so far · 18 watches · 156 asks

A second panel, built separately from the last price a seller asked before their listing closed. A listing may close because it was withdrawn or because it sold, so the two panels are published separately and never blended.

The panel

Asking prices
328
against 188 a year earlier
Watches
29
listed in both years
Brands
1
in the panel
Turnover
10%
of the panel is different watches than last year

One vote per watch, whatever its price. A dollar-weighted index of this panel would just track whichever brand lists the most expensive watches.

Browse these watches

Catalog pages for the watches in the same group. The figures above belong to the index panel.

Other brands

One brand moves as one cluster, so most brand cuts publish a range.

Every other cut

How this is measured

These are asking prices. A sale price is never observed here. Both panels are published separately and are never blended.

Matched model. A year’s change is the average change across watches listed in both that year and the one before, one vote per watch.

It follows the same watches getting older. A matched-model index of used goods carries some drift from age alone, and that drift stays in the figure. Read it as what an owner holding these watches saw.

Full methodology · Disclosures