The world seems to have endless millionaires despite millions who might not even know how many zeroes comprise a million! Now don’t be surprised if you soon meet an affluent guy boasting of a bike as one of his prized possessions because this bicycle is any thing but ordinary. Gold was always the world’s favorite metal and designers of all sorts keep inventing splendid ideas to play on it. A Scandinavian design company Aurumania has launched a limited edition run of 10 of the world’s most expensive bike. Each bike is hand-built and gold-plated with 24-carat gold, then decorated with over 600 Swarovski crystals.
Hand-sewn leather grips and a Brooks leather saddle provide finishing touches to the bike, with each limited edition number embossed with gold leaf and set into a leather badge onto the bike’s headtube.This “Golden Beauty” would ease you of €80,000.you would love to ride it but its something to flaunt off the track! Being in line with this thought the Company has also created a 24-carat gold wall holder for the bike, to be displayed as a work of art. Go on then and get the Golden Display for your wall, if you are lucky enough to do so, but make sure no one rides away with it!

Via bikeradar

For all the affluent budding musicians, here’s an indispensable musical instrument. The NeKo LUX launched by Open Labs is the company’s most expensive instrument to date. Encased in a 24-karat gold chassis, the instrument is worth over $24,000. Catering to the growing urban music scene, Open Labs will be hosting a two-day music event titled “Beats ‘N Treats Music Festival” at the Mohawk venue on October 24-25, 2008 in which the winner will receive this stunning gadget being gifted by Open Labs to mark the celebration of their five year anniversary. Headquartered in the heart of “the live music capital of the world,” Open Labs™ develops customized, computer music keyboards suited to fit every studio and stage need imaginable.

Comprising 76 keys, this gilded keyboard sports chrome-plated end bells. Also, its major USP is that this instrument also packs in noteworthy features like 4GB RAM, USB connectivity, Blu-ray DVD/CD Burner and 100,000 preset sounds, along with a V4 software library as well as 5th Anniversary Special Sound Libraries.

But here’s a twist in the tale. Only 24 such Midas-touched keyboards will be shipped in this limited edition and they are only available to those who have or had used an Open Labs product can apply for this glitzy-ritzy keyboard. So go, Grab your device before it gets too late!!

Via OpenLabs

I always thought that my Swarovski watch is the ultimate thing that has ever seen life but the recent collection launched by Jaeger-LeCoultre has made my time piece blush! Yeah, I know they are the best watch-makers in the whole wide world, or so the gfame goes but I never though that they would surpass their own best so easily. The new Jaeger-LeCoultre Le Lierre Collection. It’s a green fantasy turned to life! It is made in the form of ivy leaves and tendrils, only the green leaves are realised in gold and precious stones to make it the ultimate style statement.

The set comes complete with a necklace, a bracelet, a ring and a pair of in 18k yellow gold and and yellow sapphires. In total, it has 14,000 gemstones and it costs a paltry $4.3 million. You heard it right! Paltry is what I said. The miracle that this piece is, 4.3 million is too paltry an amout if you ask me.

Via TimeZone

If that instatement of in-house golf simulator or full-swing golf simulator fails to offer the expected amount of excitement or rather has created a void for you then consider the priceless set of worlds most expensive golf clubs designed by Japan-based manufacturers ‘Honma’.They say a set of 14 golf clubs is going to bite you with a demanding cost of $45,000. The head shape, shaft and the grip of the golf clubs is customized sporting 24k gold plating and Pt 1000 platinum.

Each club is feigned considering the specifics of the customers in terms of its length and weight. There is a possibility that you can emboss initials over each club.

Via GolfAustralia

If that designer LED clock table by Rowland fails to justify your deluxe interiors and you proceed to welcome some elite form of furniture with a similar appeal then the Goldstriker creation of 24-Carat Wristwatch Table can put an end to your hunt. With looks making a dull wrist watch feel ashamed, the masterpiece serves as notable furniture. The dial of the timepiece sports as the table top whilst featuring time in a LED display. Addressing a wider functionality to this striking offering, the wristwatch table also sports date, temperature and your selection of convivial words.

Priced at $43,150, the gold table would surely befit the room slapped with gold walls.

Check out the pool of Goldstriker’s creation here.

Via GadgetsBlog

England’s harmony is a much-talked about issue gathering deserving attention amongst historians chiefly pointing to Anglo-Saxons and reviving energies after a long interval stands here the unearthing of this atypical cross. This gives me another chance to be remembered as a proletarian treasure hunter has discovered a 1400-year old Anglo Saxon Cross buried in the farms of Nottinghamshire. Claiming to bear a pricey tag of £25,000, the Cross comes donned in 18-karat gold and features three red gemstones together. Elegant to be worn as a pendant, the cross is developed after melting gold from Merovingian French Coins. In fact, the three red gemstones are extraordinary as they are allegedly the Grantum gems, the most ancient stones found globally.

A treasure hunters wishes to see this cross as a prospective temptation for folks with German roots and residing in the UK.

Via DailyMail

Wanting to have Golden eyes? Here you go! The timeless Wayfarer from Italy’s super lately got blessed with a golden touch from Zeiss lenses. Featured above is a limited edition of the handcrafted frames that hold gold mirror lenses.  The “24K Gold Lenses” available in a black and a white frame fail to gather my attention as I would love to go with plain frames and also don’t have enough dough to take pride in holding one. Like I always say, luxury never comes cheap and hence the lenses here also know their worth and therefore demand $18,165. Sure thing, for carrying such glitzy lenses one needs to have bold personality as well!

Via StyleFrizz

Coming from China, the Suo Xin ZT888 is a handset that aims at playing hoodwink with Apple fans, thereby blindly encouraging them to ink deal with the cheapest version of phone bearing an Apple logo.  The mobile phone from iPMart comes equipped with an added layer of authentic leather case/battery for certain reason. Priced at $115.43, the model invited my attention because of the Apple-logo slapped call buttons.

Avaialble in two editions i.e. white and black, the gold caked phone features a 2.4 inch display, 2.0-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, Dual SIM slots, microSD slot plus other indispensable utilities like calculator, calendar, memo, alarm, world time, stopwatch and games.

Via iPMart / SlipperyBrick

Having carved snakes on cell phones, Jeweler Boucheron is now showing an admiration for frogs on watches. The limited edition Boucheron Bestiaire timepieces are produced in counted eight-pieces and come slapped with 18K white gold. Measuring 42mm, the watch is water resistant to 50 meters bearing a white mother-of-pearl dial with the movement of a manual-wind Tourbillon well defined by 17 jewels. Available in two editions, one with 282 rubies, sapphires and multicolored tsavorites (weighing 7.7 carats), and other with 195 rubies, sapphires and multicolored tsavorites (weighing 3.3 carats.), it is a complete form of luxury that you can ever flaunt via a timepiece.
Via Luxist

Yes, you heard it right! And the courtesy for such a whopping price tag of Damas-designed Kohl magazine, ITP Lifestyle magazine goes to its bejeweled cover page featuring Katrina Kaif captured by celebrity photographer Avinash Gowariker! Targeting Asian women, the face of the magazine comes dipped in 91 grams of gold and festooned with 622 diamonds. Thanks to the alliance with an established UAE-based jeweler Damas that the magazine is valued at more than $10,000 and is anticipated to undergo auction for the Rashid Pediatric Therapy Centre in October 2008. The gold-slapped cover of Kohl respects Bollywood diva Katrina Kaif, who was voted the Sexiest Woman by a famous international magazine.

Total 86 hours were invested by Damas craftsmen to hand-apply layers of gold leaf to a specially-treated gold-edition of the exclusive magazine. If you are unaware then the glitzy front cover of the world’s most costly magazine issue preserves all of its unique content, assuring its idyllic exhibit appealor one-off gift for either a compassionate or dedicated aficionada of Kaif. After all the gold-creation designed for a noble cause throws an opportunity for fashionistas to express their love for Kaif and earn some novelty.
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