You’re holding the watch. This room is built for the person thinking of letting it go: what sellers are asking for your reference right now, what buyers have verifiably paid for it, the desk that reads your reference against that record, and the homework that makes a listing sell itself. The figures themselves are the members’ dispatch — this room is the map, the method, and the proof the work is done.
The board behind this room: Glass Case check of 2026-10-31 · the house’s verified sales record, kept nightly · every figure labeled — asking is never dressed up as sold
Asking isn’t selling. The board puts the two numbers side by side for all nine references this house tracks. One side is the shop window — The Glass Case. The other is the till receipt — verified sales only, the same record behind the Realized-Prices Archive. The distance between them is the first thing a seller should know — and it is the members’ number.
The board — asking vs. realized
The board exists, and it is kept current: median asking from the Glass Case snapshot (Chrono24 + eBay, checked 2026-10-31) beside the house’s verified realized record, for all nine references — every realized figure with its sample size printed beside it.
The board is members’ work. The full board — asking medians, realized medians, the spread on each reference, thin samples labeled thin — goes to members in the dispatch, beside the realized-prices archive. What this page carries is the proof: nine references tracked, 13 sales carrying the house’s verified stamp (the archive’s count, by reference, is public in the Realized-Prices Archive), and the method below. Three references have no verified realized record yet — those watches rarely change hands in public, which is itself information.
The board is the market. The tool is your reference, read against the till receipts.
What’s It Worth?
The house valuation desk works from verified sold prices only — final price and sale date read from the listing itself, never inferred from a disappearance. Pick the reference: the desk shows how many verified sales stand behind it. The range, the median, and every comp are the members’ dispatch — the desk proves the record exists and how deep it runs, without printing it. Where a reference has no verified public sale yet, the desk says so instead of guessing — and for the earliest references, that silence is the market telling you how rarely they trade.
For information and education — not an appraisal, and not investment advice. Condition, originality, and provenance move the real number; the checklist below is how you document yours.
Where the sales on our record actually closed — and what each route asks of you. This is the house’s verified sample — the 13 sales that carry the verified stamp — not the whole market; it skews toward the references that trade most, and toward venues whose sold prices can be read and confirmed.
Open marketplaces — 5 of 13
Every verified eBay sale on the record sits here — five of the thirteen. The deepest pool of buyers and the most readable sold prices — which is why the record leans this way. The work is yours: photographs, description, questions, shipping. The references that actually move in public — the 145.022-69 above all — move here.
Watch auctions — 7 of 13
Six verified sales at Grailzee and one at Watch Collecting (HK) make up the auction column of the record. An auction house or platform photographs, catalogs, and fields the bidders; you give up the calendar and accept the room’s verdict on the day. Strong for a watch with a story the room can compete over.
Traditional auction — 1 of 13
One verified sale at Bruun Rasmussen. The slowest route and the most ceremony — vetting, cataloging, a sale date months out. The earliest references (CK 2915, CK 2998) barely appear in our public record at all; when they do sell, it is disproportionately in rooms like this, off the public board.
And the third route — a private sale or a dealer — leaves no public receipt, so it cannot appear in a verified record at all. That absence is worth understanding: a dealer offers immediacy and discretion in exchange for the wholesale side of the spread, and a private sale is only as strong as the buyer you already know. Price either against the realized record, not the asking column. Watching listings get cut is its own signal, too — Price Drops tracks the cuts nightly (the board itself ships in the dispatch), and Price Trends keeps each reference’s plotted history for members, its latest point public.
Before you list — the checklist
Buyers pay for certainty. Every item below is something a serious buyer will check anyway; documenting it first is the cheapest value a seller can add. Each step links to the house guide or dossier that covers it.
Pin the exact reference — and the dash variant. The caseback engraving decides it: a 145.022-69 and a 145.022-71 are different watches at different money. Start with the reference dossiers — e.g. the 145.022 dossier on sub-variants and what to check, or the CK 2998 dossier for the first-in-space lineage.
Date the movement, and say how you know. The movement serial places production within a range; a serial that doesn’t fit the reference is a question your buyer will find. Run it through Serial Lookup and quote the result in the listing.
Dial and bezel originality. A stepped dial and, on the pre-1970 references, the DON bezel — dot over the ninety — are where originality is proved or lost. The Dial Identifier walks the variants; photograph both, in daylight, before you write a word of the listing.
Service history, in writing. When was it last serviced, by whom, and what was replaced? Papers, invoices, and a watchmaker’s note all count; a replaced part disclosed is a footnote, and the same part discovered is a negotiation.
Box, papers — and the Extract question. A full set carries a premium, and an Omega Extract from the Archives was the documentary gold standard; our Boxes & Papers guide covers what each era’s set looks like and the Extract’s current status. State plainly which of these your watch has — and which it doesn’t.
Photograph the evidence. Caseback engraving, movement serial, dial in daylight, bezel dot, case lines unpolished or polished — the listing that shows the checks above has already answered the buyer’s first five questions.
Sell with the board in your inbox
The free dispatch brings the weekly Market Report — what actually sold, verified — to your inbox every Saturday. Members get the Daily Glass Case: every morning’s notable listings across the nine references, so a watch like yours is never priced in the dark. Price against the realized column, and let the asking column argue with itself.
Asking prices are what sellers want — they are not values, and they are not what watches sell for.
Realized prices appear here only when the sale itself was verified — sold status, final price, and sale date read from the listing. A listing that disappears is never counted as a sale.
The valuation tool estimates from those verified sales alone. It is information and education — not an appraisal and not investment advice.
This room does not buy watches, take consignments, or broker sales. It publishes the record and the tools; the selling is yours.
Sample sizes are printed next to every realized figure. One sale is one sale — it is labeled that way, and it is not a market.