What enthusiasts are asking

Quartz watches on the secondhand market

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

2026 SO FAR
No clear move
-1.5% to +9.9%95% range
193 watches · 1,126 asks · 43 brands · revises monthly
In line with the index
Measured against the whole index, on the same watches in the same pass.
The whole index
+7.4%
2026 so far · 1,069 matched watches

The interval is tight and straddles zero. That is a real answer: this group did not move enough to be detected.

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 farrevisesNo clear move193 watches · 1,126 asks · 43 brandsIn line with the index-1.5% to +9.9%
2025No clear move192 watches · 1,171 asks · 47 brandsIn line with the index-4.7% to +5.0%
2024No clear move152 watches · 1,036 asks · 36 brandsIn line with the index-9.3% to +1.3%
2023No clear move125 watches · 1,026 asks · 32 brandsIn line with the index-9.3% to +4.3%

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-2.6% to +13.1%2026 so far · 84 watches · 410 asks · 25 brands

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 A closed listing may have been withdrawn rather than bought, so this is never a sale price and the two panels are never blended.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

Asking prices
1,126
against 867 a year earlier
Watches
193
listed in both years
Brands
43
largest is 23% of it
Turnover
34%
of the panel is different watches than last year

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.

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