Five tiers, one principle: pay for intelligence, never for the publication. The story stays public — the journal, the dossiers, the rooms. The intelligence is delivered to members: the boards, the archive, the full reports. And Mission Watch Live keeps the mission that made the watch famous on your screen, live.
Founding rates are open
Free shows you the market’s weather; membership gives you the archive, the calls, and the receipts — every verified sale, every price drop the night it happens, and a ledger that grades its own predictions.
The founding cohort opened October 10 and stays open until the places are taken — the first 200 lock $100/yr for life, grandfathered forever. 1 of 200 founding places taken — seat No. 1 is the founder’s own.
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 story stays public. Journal, reference library, the Lounge, Mission Watch — public, no account needed. The market intelligence — the Glass Case figures, the full reports, the Price Drops board, the trends history, the realized archive — is not posted for the taking. It is delivered to members.
Membership is delivery. The full editions come to you — the complete boards and reports, the Daily Glass Case email, instant arrival alerts, Live Wire SMS — instead of sitting on a public page. The public site carries the proof the work exists: counted, dated, and kept current.
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.
The top seat — 100 founding seats
The whole house
House Pass
$49 / month
Every desk in the house — one membership · or $490 / year
Founding tranche — 100 seats · 0 taken, its own cohort
Speedmaster Gonzales™ — the Daily Glass Case, the full Weekly Report, the full boards
The Geneva Papers™ — the full Wednesday filings, board and results
Monaco™ — the full Thursday reports, from Report No. 2
The Automatic Papers™ — the fourth desk, included when it opens
Reports On Demand — one Reference Report per quarter included, on the desk of your choice
Four desks singly would run $76/mo — the pass is the house’s top seat at $49
SMS delivery begins once carrier approval completes. Reply STOP to opt out anytime.
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What’s included
Free $0
Monthly $19/mo
Founders $100/yr
Standard $200/yr
Collector’s Wire $300/yr
Live Wire $500/yr
The Daily Glass Case brief — every morning
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Realized prices, in full
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The Realized-Prices Archive — every verified sale, searchable by reference
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Price Drops — the complete nightly board
Weekly highlights
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The off-board log, in full — every disappearance, dated, at its last ask
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The Calls Ledger — full scoring archive
Calls published free
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Members’ brief archive (every past brief)
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Instant email & push alerts — notable arrivals
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Confirmed-sale notifications the moment they post
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Live SMS alerts — arrivals, sales & off-board events
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Founding rate — grandfathered forever
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Memberships are processed securely by PayPal — Monthly and annual tiers alike. Prices in USD; cancel anytime from your PayPal account.
SMS terms and privacy: terms · privacy.
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; a tropical Ed White at Bulang 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.
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 changed in November 2026? The site trimmed to the marquee layer — the story public, the intelligence by delivery only. The full boards, reports, and archives go to members by email; the public pages carry their existence, their counts, and their dates. Memberships hold the terms stated here.
Can I cancel? Anytime. Monthly is month-to-month — cancel from your PayPal account; 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.
The free dispatch
The free list carries the story — the Saturday report’s marquee edition and the journal, every week. The full editions are the membership.
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The House — the whole shelf
Speedmaster Gonzales™ is one desk of a house, kept to a single standard of evidence. Every desk runs the same rule: the story is public, the intelligence is delivered to members. The shelf, in one view:
Speedmaster Gonzales™ — this desk. The Moonwatch market: the Daily Glass Case, the full Weekly Report, the boards. Membership above — $19/mo · $200/yr, checkout live.
The Geneva Papers™ — vintage Submariner, Daytona and Explorer, every Wednesday. Its list is free to join; its membership arms when the desk’s checkout opens.
Monaco™ — vintage Heuer chronographs, 1963–1985, every Thursday. Founding list open; Report No. 2 files inside the membership.
The Automatic Papers™ — the fourth desk: the Speedmaster automatics, swept nightly and data-complete. Its founding list opens when its mailbox does; the House Pass includes it from the day it opens.
One desk at $19, or the whole house at $49 — the free lists are the lobby on every desk.