A hundred years of colour. Almost none of it written down.
CocotteWatch is the register for enamelled cast iron. Every finish, every market, what it costs new and what it is worth now. Forty-three finishes are sold in the United States today. Australia's own guide lists sixteen. Nobody has ever counted the rest.
Free to search, and always will be. Members will be told first when a piece surfaces below its price, in any market we watch.
The register is open to everyone and always will be, because a reference that charges admission is not a reference. What members pay for is speed, depth and, when they want it, a person to act on their behalf.
Open · Free in perpetuity
The Register
Every finish, every shape, every size, in every market that has carried it. What it was called here and what the same enamel was called somewhere else. When it arrived, and when it quietly stopped being made.
None of this is published anywhere. Not by the maker, who lists only what is currently for sale, and not by anyone else. It lives in the heads of collectors and in conversations that vanish when an administrator loses interest. One named group went in 2026. Nobody outside knows why, and no archive of it has surfaced.
43 · 16
Finishes sold in the United States today, against the sixteen in Australia's own colour guide. Recorded 27/07/2026.
27
Colour codes in the only public list, itself unverified. The code space runs to about a hundred.
Open in part
The Index
What a piece is worth, as against what somebody hopes for it. Asking prices, settled prices where we can confirm them, the spread between the two, and the sample behind every number. Where a figure is soft we say so on the figure, not in a footnote.
Watches have this. Cars, cards and sneakers have it. A brand a century old, with a deep and genuinely emotional secondary market, has nothing at all. The first question anyone asks when they inherit one of these is what it is worth, and until now there has been no answer.
US$25,300
A full Elysée Yellow set with Marilyn Monroe provenance. One reported sale, not an index, which is exactly the problem.
US$450 → $950
A 2019 collaboration roaster, new against a reported sale in December 2024. Short runs beat old age, and almost nobody prices for it.
Membership
Dispatch
Colours do not retire everywhere at once. They go market by market, one to three years apart, with no announcement. Deep Teal ended in America in July 2023 and is still on the shelf in five other countries. Meringue ended there in 2024 and is sitting in Australian stores now.
So the finish you were told you had missed is very often still being made, somewhere else, at full price, with no fuss at all. We will watch every market we can reach and send word when something moves: a run-out beginning, a restock landing, a price falling below what it costs at home.
1,866 · 529
Listings in the Canadian catalogue against the Japanese one. Same brand, same day, 27/07/2026.
No record
Of this brand in the two largest restock services. The price trackers that do exist cover a single retailer.
Membership
The Vitrine
Your own collection, catalogued properly: what each piece is, where it came from, what it cost you and what it is worth today, in a form you can hand to an insurer.
And the thing nobody tells you. The maker's own wording is that replacement in the same colour cannot be guaranteed. So a claim on a retired finish can hand you back a current one, and take the value with it. Knowing which of your pots that applies to is worth more than the repair.
3.7 million
Watches catalogued by 1.3 million owners on one watch platform. For a century of enamelled cast iron there is nowhere to do it at all.
Every one
Secondhand piece sold without a guarantee, whatever the listing says. It ends with the first owner, in the maker's own words, in every region we have read.
By application
Privé
Acquisition, on your instruction. The factory sales are the deepest reductions this brand makes and the hardest thing it does to attend: ticketed, sold out, and published on no calendar anywhere, including the maker's own. We will hold the calendar. We queue. You go.
Privé will operate as a separate company under licence from the house, so the register and the acquisition desk are never the same set of hands.
Over £600
Self-reported by one attendee, from one visit to one sale. The only figure anyone has published.
No calendar
Exists for these events, not even the maker's own. Dates go out by email and social post, and the tickets sell out.
Proof, with the date on it
Price advantage is what falls out of knowing first. It is not the promise, so here it is stated plainly rather than sold: five records taken on one day. Choose a finish to read its record.
United States, to your door in Australia
Round casserole, 26 cm
26 cm, 5.3 litres. Sold as 5.5 quarts in America.
It is A$750 here. One American seller had it at A$405 against a A$618 list, and A$480 by the time it lands on your doorstep.
The same pot, the same size, the same afternoon. Nine were left when we looked. America calls this finish Flame and France calls it Volcanique. One enamel, three names.
Verified
New in AustraliaA$750.00
The potA$405.63
DeliveryA$74.73
To your doorA$480.36
Under36.0%
Before any import charges at checkout, which we have not yet confirmed.
Australia
Round casserole, 22 cm
22 cm, 3.3 litres. The everyday one.
A$600 becomes A$360, on the maker's own shelf, in a colour they still sell.
A clearance line, and worth saying so plainly. What makes it interesting is that Britain was not offering White on this style at all that day, so the same pot in the same finish was both cheap here and unavailable there.
Verified
NewA$600.00
Found atA$360.00
DifferenceA$240.00
Under40.0%
Australia
Oval casserole, 27 cm
27 cm, 4.1 litres. The one that takes a whole chicken.
A$665 down to A$399, in Cerise, in the oval.
One of fifty cast iron lines on clearance in Australia that morning, and the one worth having. Ovals tend to go before rounds, which is why we watch them.
Verified
NewA$665.00
Found atA$399.00
DifferenceA$266.00
Under40.0%
Australia
Round casserole, 20 cm
20 cm, 2.4 litres. Two people, or one very good stew.
A$525 in the shop. A$392.08 two clicks away.
Nothing was marked. Nothing was ending. It was simply priced lower somewhere nobody thinks to look, which is the whole reason to look everywhere.
Verified
NewA$525.00
Found atA$392.08
DifferenceA$132.92
Under25.3%
Wherever one surfaces
Cocotte d'Amour, 20 cm
The heart. Discontinued, in a colour that went with it.
Seven on the open market here the day we looked. The middle one wants A$592.
Cassis has been gone for years and the heart with it. It now asks more than a current round of the same size costs new. That is not sentiment, it is a market, and a market has a number.
Asking
A current 20 cm roundA$525.00
Lowest askingA$532.65
The middle oneA$592.38
Highest askingA$674.71
For saleSeven
Over12.8%
Asks against a current round of the same size band, not the same piece.
Record 1 of 5 · 03/08/2026 · Australian dollars
Two countries, two different sets of colours
Seventeen finishes in Australia. Sixteen in Britain. Only eleven in both. About a third of each range does not exist in the other, so a finish you were told you had missed is often just in the wrong country.
17
Australia
16
Britain
11
Both
Australia alone
Camomille
Sage
Caribbean Blue
Marseille Blue
Artichaut
White
Britain alone
Agave
Bamboo Green
Thyme
Bleu Riviera
Flint
Both markets
Volcanic
Garnet
Nuit
Nectar
Chambray
Satin Black
Cerise
Shell Pink
Sea Salt
Meringue
Azure
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