What enthusiasts are asking

Hand-wound watches on the secondhand market

Watches whose movement is hand-wound. Movement type splits the panel roughly the way buyers split it, and the three bands do not move together.

2026 SO FAR
+8.1%
+1.9% to +14.1%95% range
93 watches · 775 asks · 33 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+8.1%93 watches · 775 asks · 33 brandsIn line with the index+1.9% to +14.1%
2025-4.6%72 watches · 535 asks · 25 brandsIn line with the index-7.4% to -0.7%
2024No clear move57 watches · 360 asks · 18 brandsIn line with the index-7.7% to +2.7%
2023No clear move49 watches · 271 asks · 18 brandsIn line with the index-10.1% to +1.8%

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

No clear move-4.2% to +10.2%2026 so far · 47 watches · 251 asks · 25 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 A listing may close because it was withdrawn or because it sold, so the two panels are published separately and never blended.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
775
against 474 a year earlier
Watches
93
listed in both years
Brands
33
largest is 11% of it
Turnover
34%
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 movement types

Automatic, hand-wound, or quartz and its relatives.

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.

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