Watches under $500 on the secondhand market
A watch lands in this band because of what it goes for on the secondhand market. That is also why there is no list of watches on this page: naming them would publish each one's market price.
The interval clears zero, so this cut is allowed to name a direction.
Year by year
| Year | Change | Reading | 95% range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 so farrevises | +7.3%430 watches · 2,599 asks · 90 brandsIn line with the index | +3.9% to +10.6% | |
| 2025 | No clear move343 watches · 2,324 asks · 77 brandsIn line with the index | -2.2% to +4.9% | |
| 2024 | No clear move280 watches · 1,858 asks · 72 brandsIn line with the index | -5.4% to +1.7% | |
| 2023 | No clear move215 watches · 1,825 asks · 58 brands+3.5% vs the index | -4.4% to +4.1% |
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 A listing may close because it was withdrawn or because it sold, so the two panels are published separately and never blended.
The panel
One vote per watch, whatever its price. A dollar-weighted index of this panel would just track whichever brand lists the most expensive watches.
Why there is no list of watches here
A watch lands in a price band because of what it goes for on the secondhand market. Naming the watches in a band would publish each one’s market price, so the reading above covers the whole band.
Other price bands
Bands are set from each watch's own market price.
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.