If you thought the top spec iPhone was pricey then you’ve seen nothing yet, and it’s also comparatively unlikely that you’re going to forfeit the asking value for one of these marvelously over the top iPhones.
The diamond encrusted rose gold iPhone is one of two expressly commissioned phones costing £5m each and designed by Stuart Hughes from Liverpool. It has 500 individual flawless cut diamonds with the two transposable diamonds for the home button worth £4m between them. The back of the phone is a pretty startling, even though perceptibly exaggerated, rose gold and the Apple logo includes 53 diamonds. More diamonds are sumptuously placed around the edges of the phone and in total there’s 100 carat of diamonds.
An enormously wealthy Australian businessman commissioned the design of the two iPhones from Liverpool based mobile handset pimper Stuart Hughes who is renowned for his work pimping cell phones. He has a number of less classy iPhones for sale, should you be interested, that range in value from £1,800 to £22,000 and has designed phones for the likes of Stefano Gabbana and Karl Lagerfeld.
Apparently, this scrupulous design of iPhone is far from understated and we imagine that using it as an actual mobile handset is somewhat implausible. Mainly as it comes with its very own case (not quite the £20 special from the local O2 shop either) that is made from granite in an imperial pink colour and has Nubuck top grain leather.
Hughes alleged of the design that ’it was a fantastic challenge and I am really pleased with the end result – the phones look superb.
‘Phones are so popular at the moment and this is the ultimate design for one. It was a very exciting project.
‘The diamonds are rare and difficult to source, stones like that usually have a very long history.”
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