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Titanium research

The Titanium Field Guide is a research programme as much as a catalog. We run the numbers on the whole titanium market and publish what we find, free to cite with a link, with every entry behind the figures verified against the maker and dated. Here is the work so far, with a new edition of the survey every year.

The studies

Annual survey · 2026 editionThe State of Titanium Watches1,162 watches, 299 brands, 29 countriesPrice, weight, movement, grade and origin across the whole verified catalog, in six findings. Each edition is frozen and dated, so a figure quoted from it does not change afterward.Read the 2026 edition →Single-finding study · 2026The Titanium Grade Transparency Report55% never say which titaniumWhich makers publish a standard alloy grade and which do not, broken down by price, brand and country. The maker's own spec page is the only source that counts.Read the report →Live tracker · updated with every sweepThe Titanium Price Tracker83% of observed changes were increasesEvery verified change to a listed maker price, recorded as the guide re-reads maker pages, with the direction of travel, the median move and the biggest movers.Open the tracker →Price index · monthlyThe Titanium Watch Price Index0% repriced in November 2026The same titanium watches, their US list price read from the maker's own site every month, so the share that repriced is counted rather than guessed.See the index →Single-finding study · 2026The Watch Case Material ReportWithin one maker, bronze runs 0.87x titanium and ceramic runs 1.11x titanium and carbon runs 1.07x titaniumTitanium, ceramic, bronze, carbon and tantalum compared across 2,865 references. Catalog medians span 98.7 times, which is mostly a fact about which companies use each material and shifts as these catalogs grow. The controlled comparison is the one that holds still.Read the report →Annual awards · 2026Titanium Watches of the YearLightest: 20 gThe lightest, thinnest, deepest and best-value watches of the year, plus the most transparent brand, each decided by the numbers rather than editorial taste.See the winners →Live records · updated weeklyTitanium Watch RecordsLightest today: 20 gThe extremes of the catalog as of today: lightest, thinnest, deepest, largest, most affordable and most expensive, each a live leaderboard rather than a frozen pick.See the records →Cross-material analysis · liveThe Reach of Titanium$67.99 to $681,500Among case materials other than steel, only titanium runs from an accessible entry-price watch to a grand complication, measured here across all six catalogs.Read the analysis →Data-derived shortlist · liveUnderrated Titanium Watches36 makers you may not knowWell-verified, fully specified titanium watches from brands the guide holds only a few references for. One pick per maker, chosen by a stated rule rather than taste.See the shortlist →Colour analysis · liveThe Colours of Titanium19% is coloured rather than greyTitanium arrives grey and most of it stays that way. This looks at the fifth that does not, in black, blue, gold, rose and Damascus, with how each colour is made and what it costs.See the colours →Price analysis · liveTitanium Watch Prices by Country$199 Chinese, $18,700 SwissWhat a titanium watch costs by where the brand is based, with the Chinese and Swiss columns set side by side and a like-for-like comparison of automatic dive watches.See the prices →

Every edition

The State of Titanium is an annual. Each edition is frozen to its dataset cutoff, so a number cited from it does not move afterward, and older editions stay published at their own address rather than being overwritten. Freshness comes from publishing the next edition rather than from this year's numbers shifting under a citation.

How the data is made, and how to use it

Every watch in the catalogs behind these studies has its case material checked, titanium for the titanium studies and each catalog's own material for the cross-material ones such as the Watch Case Material Report, stated in so many words by the maker or, while a maker page is pending, by a reputable hands-on review. Every entry is sourced, dated and confidence-graded. Where a figure is unstated we record the absence rather than infer a value, which is why the disclosure results are findings rather than gaps. The full rules are on the methodology page, and each report carries its own methodology appendix and a version history.

Specifications and the aggregate figures in these studies are facts and free to cite with a link to the study. If you are writing about titanium and want the underlying numbers, the grade report ships a brand-level CSV, and every study here is built to be quoted.