How we check prices

Official or estimate, never mixed up

Where a brand publishes a price, such as Rolex's service list, we show it as an official figure: in our tables it is set upright and labeled Official. Where nobody publishes a price and we rely on a dealer, a quote or a third-party guide, we say so: the figure is set in italics, labeled Estimate, with an ≈ in front of the amount.

A dealer's estimate is never presented as a fact. If a figure comes from a business that buys or sells watches, we tell you.

Every price carries a date

Prices change. Under each table you'll find the date we last checked it, and at the top of every guide the date the guide as a whole was checked. Service price tables are reviewed every quarter, and sooner when a brand announces new prices.

We say what we don't know

Some brands don't publish prices, or publish them in a way we can't read. When that happens we say it in the guide, and we tell you how to get a written quote yourself instead of filling the gap with a guess.

Checked before it goes live

Every guide is written by Tickwerk Editors and checked by a separate editor before publication. A guide doesn't go live with a figure we can't trace to a source.

What we won't do

We don't claim you can settle a watch's authenticity from photos. The honest advice is to check the sales channel and the papers, and to have a watchmaker open the case. That's what our guides tell you.