The worlds most expensive stuff – WOW!
What would you buy, if money were no object? A yacht? A summer house by the sea? A diamond encrusted ring for your beloved?
Now think bigger.
Think of everyday items, and then multiply the regular price by a couple of million. According to Yahoo! Finance (source for the following list), in the age of the recession where people cut spending on grocery items and clothes, the prices on diamonds and art don’t seem to have taken much of a beating.
So, how much can people spend on possessions?
Televisions
If you like the idea of a television covered in 18 kilograms of 18-carat rose gold and encrusted with 72 diamonds, the PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition TV might be for you. It’s a limited edition, so I would get cracking on it. Oh, and you’ll need to rustle up $2.3 million to pay for it.
Hotel Rooms
While the rest of us are slumming it on a dorm bed in a hostel, or tossing and turning in minimal 2-star comfort, take a minute to think of those hanging their coats up in the 10 room, seven bathroom, mini-palace at the Penthouse Suite at the Hotel President Wilson in Geneva. Apparently there’s also a private fitness area, which is lucky because you’d need to stave off the impending heart attack attached to the $65,000 a night bill.
Motorcycles
If you want to be like James Dean or Marlon Brando, but you want that kind of cool in top-notch class, find yourself a spare $700,000 and the Dodge Tomahawk V10 Superbike will be yours for keeps. Apparently you can go 300 miles per hour on the thing, and can get from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds, which I understand is impressive.
Mobile Phone
Stuart Hughes (the man responsible for the somewhat overpriced tv, above) is obviously onto something, because he also has a line in iPhones with similar trappings as the television. Indeed, for his latest commissioned iPhone, the main navigation button was a 7.1 single-cut diamond. So, if you would like a special phone, just give him a call (and around $3 million of your hard-earned wages) and he’ll dip the whole thing in gold and throw diamonds at it. Just don’t leave it in a cab at the end of a big night.
Car
The 1954-55 Mercedes Benz was donated to a museum, and then rudely sold on to finance their renovations. Later on, this little engine managed to fetch $24 million when sold to a French industrialist.
House
It is staffed by 600 people. Each level (and there are 27 of them) has its own garden It has a health club, a helipad and a six-floor garage that can hold 168 cars. If that sounds nice to you, then find yourself somewhere between 1 and 2 billion, and beg a Mr. Mukesh Ambani to sell it you.
Yacht
For a cool $1,2 billion, the Eclipse has 2 helipads, 11 guest cabins, three launch boats, a minisubmarine and measures 560 feet in length. It also has an aquarium and two swimming pools, which I would have thought defeated the purpose of actually being on the ocean. Then again, I tend to agree with whoever is holding the 1.2 billion dollars.
Ring
Proposing anytime soon? She might be a tad disappointed with your $500 token considering the most expensive one out there costs $16 million.
What would you spend money on if you were that wealthy?
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