The Business of Watches Podcast: WatchCharts Top Executives Talk Market Reports And Where Prices Might Be Heading

On The Business of Watches, Andy Hoffman hosts a conversation with Charles Tian, founder and CEO of WatchCharts, and Hamza Masood, its Head of Business Partnerships, about the secondary market for luxury watches. The guests explain that WatchCharts produces quarterly reports with Morgan Stanley, and the third-quarter report shows a fifth straight quarter of overall gains of more than 1%, though growth is the weakest since mid 2025. The index remains about 28% below its April 2022 peak, and 28 of 35 tracked brands posted quarter-over-quarter gains. Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Cartier, A. Lange & Söhne, Tudor and Vacheron Constantin are discussed as leaders, while Rolex remains the largest factor even as its demand levels off and inventories hit records. The episode also weighs how geopolitics could affect which brands are most vulnerable if demand dips.