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title: Luxury Watches in Portfolios
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5235200/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5235200
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5235200
featured: 2025-04-30
citations: unknown
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
---


# Luxury Watches in Portfolios

Luxury watches from brands like Rolex, Patek Philippe, and Audemars Piguet provide significant diversification benefits to portfolios, outperforming stocks, bonds, and gold, with lower returns on Sundays.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5235200
- Identifier: SSRN 5235200
- Released: 2025-04-29
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 95 (2025-04-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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