What enthusiasts are asking

Dress watches on the secondhand market

Watches grouped as dress watches by the same design tagger the rest of the site uses, so the group here and the group you can browse never disagree. The reading covers the whole group.

2026 SO FAR
+11.0%
+7.0% to +16.1%95% range
211 watches · 1,912 asks · 54 brands · revises monthly
In line with 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

The interval clears zero, so this cut is allowed to name a direction.

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 farrevises+11.0%211 watches · 1,912 asks · 54 brandsIn line with the index+7.0% to +16.1%
2025No clear move174 watches · 1,570 asks · 44 brandsIn line with the index-2.0% to +4.5%
2024No clear move131 watches · 1,078 asks · 42 brandsIn line with the index-5.8% to +5.1%
2023No clear move106 watches · 962 asks · 33 brandsIn line with the index-9.2% to +2.4%

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

+8.4%+3.8% to +13.5%2026 so far · 116 watches · 697 asks · 40 brands

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 A listing may close because it was withdrawn or because it sold, so the two panels are published separately and never blended.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
1,912
against 1,324 a year earlier
Watches
211
listed in both years
Brands
54
largest is 13% of it
Turnover
27%
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

Dress watchesBauhaus and minimalist

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

Other kinds of watch

Grouped by what the watch is for.

Divers342 matched+6.7%Chronographs157 matched+6.4%GMT watches104 matched+7.3%Field watches66 matched+8.7%Pilot watches45 matchedn/a

Every other cut

By brandBy priceBy case sizeBy movementBy availability

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.

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