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Coconut Grove Jewelry and Watch Show Miami: visitors browsing vintage watch dealers' glass cases inside the hangar at Regatta Harbour
The Coconut Grove Jewelry & Watch Show fills The Hangar at Regatta Harbour this weekend, Nov 13–15.

The Coconut Grove Jewelry & Watch Show takes over The Hangar at Regatta Harbour in Miami this weekend — three days of antique, vintage and estate jewelry and timepieces from a global roster of dealers, open to the public, in one of the best rooms in Coconut Grove. If you collect watches, hunt estate jewelry, or simply want to spend a Florida weekend looking at beautiful objects with the marina outside the door, this is the plan.

Coconut Grove Jewelry & Watch Show 2026 — The Facts

  • Event: Coconut Grove Jewelry & Watch Show 2026
  • Dates: Friday, November 13 – Sunday, November 15, 2026
  • Venue: The Hangar at Regatta Harbour, 3385 Pan American Drive, Miami, FL 33133, Coconut Grove
  • Hours: Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
  • Tickets: Open to the public; complimentary show tickets can be reserved at coconutgrovejewelryshow.com/get-tickets (listings cite the code PARTNERLISTING); trade admission is complimentary
  • On the floor: Antique, vintage and estate jewelry and timepieces — dealers offering names like Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels and Rolex, plus specialists such as Coral Gables' Matthew Bain Inc.
Vintage wristwatches in gold and steel on dealer trays under glass at a watch show, with a loupe and gloves
The draw: trays of vintage and estate timepieces you can inspect in hand, loupe and all — the way watches were bought for a century.

Why This Miami Watch Show Is Worth the Weekend

Most vintage watches change hands on a screen now — auction photos, dealer listings, a leap of faith about condition. A show like this one is the older, better way: the watch in your hand, a loupe on the dial, the dealer across the case able to tell you where the piece came from and what has been done to it. The Grove show is produced with The Jewelers Collective and describes its floor as a global roster of esteemed antique, vintage and estate dealers — the kind of room where a first serious vintage purchase, or a tenth, gets made properly.

The setting does half the work. The Hangar at Regatta Harbour is a converted seaplane hangar on the Coconut Grove waterfront, all volume and light, with the marina a few steps away — a room built for looking at things, in a neighbourhood built for lingering after. Go for the watches; stay for lunch in the Grove.

Estate jewelry tray with a gold pocket watch, signet rings, cufflinks and pearls at an antique show
Half the floor is estate jewelry — pocket watches, signets, cufflinks: the raw material of a personal style that cannot be bought new.

How to Work the Coconut Grove Jewelry & Watch Show

  • Go Friday for stock, Sunday for deals. The full trays are out on day one; the conversations about price get more flexible by Sunday afternoon, when dealers would rather sell than ship.
  • Bring a loupe, or borrow the eye anyway. Ask to handle anything seriously. On a vintage piece you are buying condition and originality — dial, hands, case edges — and both are only visible up close.
  • Ask what has been done to it. Serviced, polished, relumed, replaced — a good dealer answers plainly, and the answer is worth as much as the watch. Papers and service history move the price for a reason.
  • Set your ceiling before the first case. Estate floors are engineered serendipity. Decide the number, then let yourself be surprised inside it.
  • Dress for the Grove. Linen, loafers, a watch worth talking about — dealers read wrists the way tailors read shoulders, and a conversation is worth more than a discount code.
Coconut Grove marina at golden hour with sailboats and the white hangar at Regatta Harbour
The Hangar sits on the Coconut Grove waterfront — the show ends, the marina begins.

Before You Go: Brush Up

New to vintage? Our guide to the best everyday watches under $500 covers the modern references a vintage piece will be compared against, and today's refreshed luxury gifts for men guide includes the current Apple Watch Ultra 4 — the silicon end of the same obsession. Read both on the drive down; buy with your eyes open.

Event details from the show's own published listings, checked this week. Hours and ticket terms can change — confirm at coconutgrovejewelryshow.com before you set out.

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