What sellers are asking for vintage Speedmasters right now — checked by hand, priced in the currency listed. This is the shop window. What buyers actually paid is a different page.
Asking isn’t selling. The numbers below are what sellers want. What collectors actually paid lives in the Market Reports — the gap between the two is where the education happens.
Site-reported listing counts beside our verified sample. Ranges are drawn only from listings we could confirm as the reference — lookalikes, parts, and modern reissues set aside.
The Broad Arrow, 1957
No genuine example on offer in today’s check.
No genuine CK 2915 on offer in today’s check — the eBay results were parts, a mislabeled reissue, and a vintage 2998.
The first in space lineage
Small sample, wide spread: a $24,950 2998-3 and a $149,500 2998-1 anchor the top end.
The second reference
eBay’s 162 results collapse to 3 genuine examples once lookalikes are set aside.
Ed White
Titles and casebacks agree here more often than not; dial-only parts listings excluded.
The fourth reference
A $45,500 exceptional DON-bezel example stretches the eBay top end.
Pre-moon, calibre 321
Includes two Ultraman listings near $42.5k — the family’s ceiling in today’s check.
Transitional pre-moon
eBay’s -68 search returns the whole 145.022 family; only 4 of 25 were true -68s.
Pre-moon, straight writing
The cleanest search of the day — nearly every result was a genuine -69.
The last of the line
No “No NASA” caseback advertised in today’s first-page sample.
The most instructive number in vintage watches isn’t a price. It’s the distance between two prices.
Once the first Market Report publishes, each reference pairs its median asking price against its median realized price.
Until then, this panel stays honest — and empty.
How many examples are publicly buyable right now. Site-reported totals, not deduplicated — the same watch can appear on both marketplaces.
One listing, discussed — for education, not promotion.
This 145.012 is titled “145.012-67SP” — yet it’s the Ultraman, the orange-seconds-hand variant collectors chase, which belongs to the 145.012-68 family. The lesson is the oldest one in the book: titles are marketing, caseback references are evidence. On a five-figure watch, the reference lives inside the caseback, confirmed against the archive — never in the headline alone. Note how the same watch appears on Chrono24 grouped with -67s; neither marketplace separates these variants cleanly.
An example worth studying — not a recommendation, and not a comment on the seller. Do your own diligence.
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