Rolex Day-Date 18948
Range published · moderate confidence
Worth about $43,100 pre-owned, with box and papers
- With box and papers
- $28,000–$58,200
- Watch only (about)
- $22,500–$46,700
Private-sale level for a pre-owned watch with box and papers, from recent eBay and auction results, weighted toward the newest; newest sale September 21, 2026.
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Moderate confidence: 6 sold results in the last 24 months (4 on eBay and 2 at auction), 2 in the last 90 days, weighted toward recent sales (half-life 180 days). Range at least ±35% around the market price. In our walk-forward backtest over the past year, 83% of 8673 later sales fell inside moderate-confidence ranges like this one.
Prices last updated October 26, 2026.
Recent sales
6 sold results since Jan 8, 2025, newest first
- eBay sold
- $43,600 median3 sales, last 12 months
- Auction sold
- Too few in the last 12 months
Individual sale results behind our data, from eBay and auction houses. Each watch differs in condition and set.
- Sep 21, 2026$44,400
- Aug 21, 2026$40,058
- Apr 8, 2026$44,450
- Mar 31, 2026$42,250
- Dec 5, 2025$43,605
- Jan 8, 2025$46,000
No forum results in this period.
Price by condition
Not enough results with a recorded condition to split the range yet. The range above covers all 6 sold prices from 6 sales.
About the Day-Date 18948
The Rolex Day-Date 18948 is a reference in the Rolex Day-Date collection. From our catalog: a 39 mm case in Yellow gold. The specifications below list every fact we have sourced for this reference; anything we could not source is marked as not known.
What the sales say
Our record for the 18948 covers about 20 months of sales, January 2025 to September 2026, and 6 of those results stand behind the current figure (4 eBay sales and 2 auction results). The auction side of the record is Grailzee and Phillips. It carries a moderate-confidence label: the range is a sound guide, but a single sale can still land outside it. The newest sale is 35 days old. Too few sales landed in the past 90 days to rate how much prices swing. A fair price for the 18948 can sit anywhere from about 35% below to 35% above the midpoint. Because it changes hands rarely, a sale still counts for half after 180 days.
Annual comparison is not possible yet (1 sales a year earlier, 5 since), so we show no trend arrow.
Our measured gap between a bare watch and a complete set is about 20% for this family, drawn from 20 sales without the paperwork. Of the 6 sales listed, 1 came as a full set, 0 as the watch alone and 0 with part of the set; 1 were described as unworn. Unworn full sets sell about 5% above worn ones across our data, so an unworn example sits above the headline. The lowest listed sale, on August 21, 2026 (at Grailzee, good condition, full set), came in about 7% below the worth-about figure; the highest, on January 8, 2025 (on eBay, set not stated), about 7% above the worth-about figure.
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