Automatic watches on the secondhand market
Watches whose movement is automatic. Movement type splits the panel roughly the way buyers split it, and the three bands do not move together.
The interval clears zero, so this cut is allowed to name a direction.
Year by year
| Year | Change | Reading | 95% range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so farrevises | +8.5%767 watches · 7,341 asks · 143 brandsIn line with the index | +6.7% to +10.4% | |
| 2025 | No clear move712 watches · 7,265 asks · 133 brandsIn line with the index | -2.3% to +2.8% | |
| 2024 | -3.2%550 watches · 5,422 asks · 122 brandsIn line with the index | -5.5% to -1.7% | |
| 2023 | -5.8%401 watches · 4,430 asks · 94 brandsIn line with the index | -7.8% to -3.2% |
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
A second panel, built separately from the last price a seller asked before their listing closed. A closed listing may have been withdrawn rather than bought, so this is never a sale price and the two panels are never blended.
The panel
One vote per watch, never weighted by price. A dollar-weighted index of this panel would just be a tracker for whichever brand lists the most expensive watches.
Browse these watches
Catalog pages, not the index panel. The figures above are the panel’s; these are the watches in the same group.
Other movement types
Automatic, hand-wound, or quartz and its relatives.
Every other cut
How this is measured
These are asking prices, not sale 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 is not measured out. Read it as what an owner holding these watches saw, not as what a model is worth new.