Membership

Why this, why now

The ’69 Camaro in an EV world: the more digital everything gets, the more the mechanical is worth. Vinyl, film cameras, hand-wound watches — the analog premium only grows. The Moonwatch is the king of it — the machine that timed the Moon landing.

And the Moon is back. Artemis returns humans to the lunar surface in 2027, with the Moonwatch on the world stage in front of a billion people. Every Artemis headline is a Moonwatch headline — and the collectors who understand the market before the crowd arrives are the ones who buy well.

That’s what the Daily Glass Case is for.

How it works

• The publication stays free. Journal, Glass Case, market reports, price trends, reference library — all public, no account needed.
• Memberships are delivery products. The Daily Glass Case email, instant arrival alerts, and Live Wire SMS bring the market to you instead of making you come to it.
• Founding rates are open. The first 200 Founders lock $100/year for life — grandfathered forever, no matter what prices do later. When the 200 are taken, the tier closes for good.
• Annual tiers are capped. Founders: 200 places · Standard: 250 · Collector’s Wire: 75 · Live Wire: 25. When a tier fills, it closes and a waitlist opens — places are offered in order as they come available. Founding places that open convert to Standard; the founding cohort only shrinks.
• Monthly never closes. $19/month, no cap — and monthly members get first claim whenever an annual place opens.

What members received

The Daily Glass Case brief, every morning — an honest index, kept weekly. Asking isn’t selling; the brief says which is which.

• Sat Oct 24 — A quiet night: no genuinely new flagship listing; four standing-inventory surfaces from fuller captures. All eight venues delivered clean.
• Fri Oct 23 — The vintage weight on eBay: two early CK 2998s, a 105.002, and a run of Ed Whites. No genuine CK 2915, no Ultraman.
• Thu Oct 22 — A thin night honestly labeled: 7 new to the watch list, 1 genuinely new; Bulang’s €19,000 tropical Ed White left the board.
• Wed Oct 21 — Two fresh pre-Moon listings and a 105.002; the rest, sold-archive surfacing — reported as such.
• Tue Oct 20 — An Ultraman night: a fresh 145.012-67SP on Chrono24, with two CK 2998s. (Sent free as a sampler.)
• Mon Oct 19 — One genuinely new pre-Moon example; the quiet elsewhere attributed to coverage, not supply — the brief says when the sweep itself was limited.
• Sun Oct 18 — A single fresh 105.012-66, with eBay’s blockage disclosed in the brief itself.
• Sat Oct 17 — A CK 2998 night: 19 surfaces, 2 genuinely fresh. (Published as the specimen brief.)

Members receive the full brief every morning — realized prices where venues state them, off-board movement, and the Collector’s note.

Read a specimen brief →

Questions

• Is the founding rate still open? Yes — founding rates opened October 10 and stay open until the first 200 places are taken. Every subscriber counts toward the 200 and locks the rate for life. After 200, the Founders tier closes.
• What happens when a tier fills? It closes and a waitlist opens. Places are offered in order as they come available — monthly members get first claim. Founding places that open convert to Standard rather than refilling, so the founding cohort only gets more exclusive.
• What changes in 2027? Early 2027 the site trims to a public teaser layer — full listing tables become paid email-only. Memberships you hold carry straight through.
• Can I cancel? Anytime. Monthly is month-to-month — cancel from your Buttondown account page; annual tiers run to the end of the term and are managed from your PayPal account.
• How do Live Wire SMS alerts work? You opt in with your mobile number at signup. Message frequency varies with market activity. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help.