Stefanos Moschopoulos
Founder & Editorial Director

Stefanos Moschopoulos

Stefanos Moschopoulos founded The Luxury Playbook in Athens and has spent the better part of a decade following the auction calendar, the en primeur releases, and the watchmakers, gallerists, and shipyards the magazine covers. He writes the field guides and listicles that anchor the Connoisseur section — pieces built on Phillips and Christie's results, Liv-ex movements, and conversations with collectors he has met across Geneva, Bordeaux, Basel, and Monaco. His own collecting habits sit closer to watches and wine than art, and it shows in the level of detail in the magazine's coverage of those categories. Under his direction, The Luxury Playbook now publishes long-form field guides, market-defining year-end listicles, and the Voices interview series with the founders behind the houses and the brands.

Specialisms
Fine AssetsFine Art InvestingWatchesFine WineYachtingAlternative InvestmentsPrivate Wealth

Background & credentials

  • Bachelor in International, European & Area Studies — Panteion University
  • Certified Alternative Investments Analyst (CAIA)
  • CFA Investment Foundations
  • Advanced SEO & Data Analytics Certification
  • Google Ads Certification (Search & Display)
  • Google Analytics Certification
  • HubSpot Content Marketing Certification

Recent stories

Two Ulysse Nardin sapphire-cased tourbillon watches with pink and blue movements visible through their transparent cases — the modern face of the manufacture whose marine-chronometer legacy underwrites every reference it ships today.Watch Collecting

Ulysse Nardin and the Marine Chronometer Legacy

Ulysse Nardin earned more first-place Neuchatel certifications than any other manufacture, supplied 50-plus navies, and quietly authored modern complication watchmaking. The collecting world is finally catching up.

The 88-metre Maltese Falcon at anchor in Caribbean waters, her three rotating carbon-fibre DynaRig masts unmistakable against the headland — the only fully realised proof of Wilhelm Prölss's 1960s rig at sea-going scale.Yachting

Maltese Falcon and the DynaRig Story

The 88-metre Maltese Falcon is the only large-scale at-sea proof of a 1960s DynaRig thought experiment. Twenty years on, the rig has been built only once more. We trace how a paper concept became the most engineered sail plan afloat.

An Anselm Kiefer work in his signature gold-leaf and ash impasto, with a winged angel figure crossing a scorched horizon — the visual language of Germany's cornerstone living painter.Art Collecting

Anselm Kiefer, Germany's Cornerstone Living Artist

Anselm Kiefer is the rare cornerstone living artist whose cultural and market standing have moved in lockstep for three decades. Our editorial read on the German painter's 2026 position, the cycles that matter, and where the secondary market sits.

A bottle of Jacques Selosse Substance Champagne in soft window light against a marble surface — the cuvée whose solera began in 1986 and that built the grower-champagne movement.Wine Collecting

Jacques Selosse and the Grower-Champagne Movement

Jacques Selosse rewrote the rules in Avize, and the grower-champagne movement followed. We read the cuvées, the lieux-dits, and the cellars built around them.

Is Now The Right Moment To Reinvest In Bordeaux Wine?Wine Collecting

Bordeaux in 2026: An Editor's Read on the Market

Bordeaux has had a quiet decade by its own standards. Our editorial read on what the 2026 market actually looks like and where serious collectors are buying.

What Figurative Art Actually Is And Why It Commands Such High PricesArt Collecting

What Figurative Art Is and Why It Commands Such Prices

A painting of a stranger’s face sold for over 20 million dollars at auction in 2023, outperforming blue-chip stocks and most real estate markets in the same period. That painting…

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Why Rolex Invented Its Own Steel When No Brand Bothered

Most watchmakers treat steel as a commodity. Rolex treats it as a competitive weapon. While the rest of the Swiss watch industry has long relied on 316L stainless steel, a…

How The Right Antique Can Outperform Stocks And Fine Art Over TimeInvestors' Lounge

How The Right Antique Can Outperform Stocks And Fine Art Over Time

A Victorian walnut bureau sold at a regional English auction in 2023 for £4,200. Within eighteen months, an identical piece from the same cabinetmaker fetched £11,500 at Christie’s. That is…

Audemars Piguet Watches 2025Watch Collecting

Why Audemars Piguet Stays a Cornerstone Manufacture

Rising auction results at Phillips and Christie's keep underlining Audemars Piguet's cornerstone status. Our editorial read on the manufacture in 2026.

Is China The Future Of Italian Sparkling Wine?Wine Collecting

Is China The Future Of Sparkling Wine?

China imported over 500 million litres of wine in 2026, yet sparkling wine accounted for less than 8% of that total. That gap is closing faster than most Italian producers…

Contemporary Portrait Art Has Become One Of The Most Collectible CategoriesArt Collecting

Why Contemporary Portrait Art Is Now a Top Collectible

Auction records once owned by abstract expressionism are starting to crack. In 2024, figurative and portrait works accounted for nearly 58% of total fine art auction hammer prices in the…

Discontinued Audemars Piguet Watches Keep Rising In ValueWatch Collecting

Discontinued Audemars Piguet Watches Keep Rising In Value

Most watches lose value the moment you buy them. Discontinued Audemars Piguet watches do the opposite. While the broader luxury goods market has shown uneven recovery since 2023, certain out-of-production…

Should UHNW Investors Be Moving To Cash As Iran Tensions Escalate?Investors' Lounge

Should UHNW Investors Be Moving To Cash As Iran Tensions Escalate?

Fewer than 12% of ultra-high-net-worth portfolios held more than 15% in cash during the 2019 Strait of Hormuz incidents, yet those that did outperformed their fully-invested peers by an average…

Baroque ArtArt Collecting

Baroque Art: A Collector's Field Guide

From Caravaggio's tenebrism to Rubens's grand machines — our field guide to Baroque art covers the period, the canon, and the auction market today.

Is Italian Fine Wine The Most Underpriced Category In Europe?Wine Collecting

Italian Fine Wine: Europe's Most Underpriced Category

A bottle of 2016 Barolo from a top producer can cost you £80 at retail. A Burgundy of comparable critical score and ageing potential will set you back three to…

5 Pop Art Artists Every Serious Collector Needs To Know In 2026Art Collecting

5 Pop Art Artists Serious Collectors Should Know in 2026

The global art market contracted by roughly 4% in 2026, yet contemporary pop art bucked that trend entirely, with bold graphic works and celebrity-adjacent imagery driving some of the strongest…

Is Rolex About To Discontinue Its Most Popular GMT Watch?Watch Collecting

Is Rolex About To Discontinue Its Most Popular GMT Watch?

Fewer than 30% of authorised Rolex dealers in North America reportedly received a single GMT-Master II Pepsi allocation in the first quarter of 2026, according to grey-market intelligence tracked by…

Why Copper, Platinum And Cobalt Are Outperforming Traditional Metals In 2026Investors' Lounge

Why Copper, Platinum And Cobalt Are Outperforming Traditional Metals In 2026

Gold just lost its crown as the default safe-haven metal for institutional portfolios. The industrial metals outlook for 2026 tells a story most traditional commodity investors are still catching up…

5 Essential Tips to Open a Retail Store & Start Scaling it UpBulletin

Opening a Retail Store: What the First Year Teaches

Retail is one of those industries that always seems to be pulling people in, and it’s easy to understand why. But opening a store without a clear plan is one…

Neo Expressionism BasquiatArt Collecting

Why Basquiat's 1982-84 Paintings Command Record Prices

A single canvas by a self-taught artist who died at 27 sold for $110.5 million in 2017, making Jean-Michel Basquiat the most expensive American artist ever auctioned at that time….

Patek Philippe WatchesWatch Collecting

Why Patek Philippe Stays a Cornerstone of Collecting

From the Calatrava to the Nautilus to the Grand Complications — why Patek Philippe remains the single most-essential manufacture in serious watch collecting.

How Switzerland Plans To Protect Its Wine Industry From Import PressureWine Collecting

How Switzerland Defends Its Wine Industry From Imports

More than half of every bottle of wine consumed in Switzerland comes from abroad. That single fact reshapes how you need to think about Swiss wine import protection, because it…

Can TAG Heuer Compete With Rolex And Omega In 2026?Watch Collecting

Can TAG Heuer Compete With Rolex And Omega In 2026?

Rolex sold fewer than one million watches in 2023 yet generated an estimated 10 billion Swiss francs in revenue, a figure that dwarfs every competitor in its price tier. TAG…

Why Some Billionaires Are Moving Assets Out Of DubaiInvestors' Lounge

Why Some Billionaires Are Moving Assets Out Of Dubai

The number that should get your attention is $47 billion. That is the estimated volume of private wealth repositioned out of Gulf-linked accounts in the first two quarters of 2026,…