Methodology

Every market on a board shows one figure, labelled "From": the lowest verified listing for that exact reference in that market — unless that listing sits far below the market’s own median, in which case the market shows no figure until the data layer supplies a guarded one. Rows ascend by "From", and the lowest row carries the one marker, "Lowest verified". "From" means this everywhere it appears: on boards, lists, cards, tables, descriptions and structured data. No placement on any board or list is paid, and no difference between markets is ever computed or printed.

Each figure carries its listing count, visibly. A market with three or more verified listings is marked solid; one or two is thin and disclosed as thin; zero claims no number at all. "Verified" means a listing that passed the pipeline’s quality gates below — deduplicated, parsed whole, priced in a real currency, and inside the plausibility band for its market.

Observations outside 25–500% of the market’s own median are rejected as accessories or misparses. Native prices whose implied exchange rate deviates more than 40% from the currency’s file-wide median are discarded in favour of the cross-checked figure. Gulf currency pegs are verified within ±1%; any feed that moves a pair more than 12% in one refresh is rejected whole.

Prices are stored in their native currency, anchored in INR, and converted at display time — never baked at a stale rate. The conversion rate’s own source timestamp is the one time shown beside prices, labelled as the conversion’s; past a 30-minute freshness threshold the board says so, visibly.

The board reflects asking prices. Where a brand’s asking prices are known to run above actual clearing prices, the figure is labelled an asking signal and never presented as a transaction price.

A market is the seller’s jurisdiction — where the seller stands, established from the listing itself — never the currency a price happens to be quoted in and never the viewer’s location. A Hong Kong figure is what sellers in Hong Kong ask, whoever is looking at it, from wherever.

Price-on-request listings are counted but never priced — a withheld number is not a number, and no other field is ever substituted for it. Parts-market listings — dials, bezels, movements, bracelets sold alone — are rejected before aggregation; a bezel’s price inside a watch median would poison the figure. Rejections are internal telemetry and never surface as prices anywhere on the site.

Each (reference, market) sample states what it is. A census frame saw the whole market. A truncated frame — capped collection that caught the low end only — publishes its floor price and listing count but never a median: a median of the cheapest slice would be fiction, so the pipeline nulls it and the site never recomputes one. An empty frame renders a page that claims nothing and asks not to be indexed.

Listings on the primary source platform quote in EUR as the platform base currency regardless of the seller’s jurisdiction — so the native capture is EUR, jurisdiction is read separately from the listing, and no currency is ever inferred from a market. Prices are then anchored in INR for storage and converted exactly once at display.

3168 references are tracked, 2549 of them carrying verified prices in two or more markets. Every reference with a verified figure in at least one market has its own page, whatever its number of markets; entries still being resolved with the data layer, and references with no price in any market, wait at the search board. Attribute coverage (dial, case material, condition) is measured per run and reported to the data owner — it never silently removes a page.

Asking prices, not transactions. Coverage follows where verified listings exist, so thin markets stay thin honestly rather than being modelled. One figure covers every dial, condition and set of a reference — counted together, never split into per-dial prices — and cross-market comparisons deliberately stop short of like-for-like claims until tax treatment is captured per listing: a page will show two markets side by side and refuse to compute the difference.

No fabricated numbers, no rounded-up counts, no borrowed figures for unpriced markets, no seller identities, no paid placement, and no offers of our own — every price shown is a seller’s asking price, converted and otherwise unchanged. The structured data on every page mirrors exactly this: an aggregation of other parties’ listings, counted.