Delamain Le Voyage Cognac, the latest update to the Delamain collection was lately honored with the “Best of the Best” 2008 Spirit award by Anthony Dias Blue for Robb Report. Le Voyage is an amalgam of Grande Champagne cognacs from Delamain crypts. It has a tinge of aromas leather, tobacco, coffee and spice with an affluent tang of the ages old grapes from the hillsides of the Grande Champagne district. The cognac comes fitted in a Baccarat crystal carafe inside a joined together leather traveling box. Now the much-wanted piece of information, the Le Voyage is retailed for $7,000.

UPDATE: Russian Billionaire inked deal with worlds most expensive house, Villa La Leopolda for £390 million.

Another update for realtors and a reason to be jealous for billionaires! The saga of worlds most expensive house started over at elitechoice with $180 mn Belgravia house (Britain’s most expensive), which got sidelined with then worlds most home for £80 million. Then the surge in the price of realty market was observed and an apartment got sold for $200 mn and during the same month news came about Mittal tagging a deal with $230 mn house touting it to be the worlds most expensive home once again.

But this time Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich overshadowed Mittals realty possessions by owning a $500 million La Leopolda. The latest worlds most expensive house now belongs to the owner of Chelsea Football Club. The regal summit villa overlooks the French Rivieraand Roman his heart to this beauty while he was visiting this along with his girlfriend Daria Zhukova.

Known to hold the best sea views in the south of France, the villa is spread across 10 acres of spotless grounds that run right downhill to the route of Villefranche. At first built for Belgian king Leopolds mistresses, the estate hold eternal value as it has been a den of big moguls i.e. late banking magnate Edmund Safra, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Fiat tycoon Gianni Agnelli.

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Your discerning eye may tag me as a watch binge but I choose to ignore. It is my fad for elite timepieces that enabled me capture deserving models over at EliteChoice. Starting from Choprad’s $25 mn model, touted to be the world’s most expensive, the list revolves around designer watches that were exhibited at watch fairs, or sold off during auctions and also the ones that can’t afford to stay from a blingy personae.

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1) A Zadora Timepiece Costs $150,000
Manufactured by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof, the face of the virtuoso Zadora Timepiece Swiss-made collection reflects horology whilst time is visible from one of its side. The meander tiara has a briolette cut diamond harmonized well with precious stones. The timepieces functions no less than a wearable jeweled statuette. The latest queen bee model come ornamented with a fragile gold crown, an enamel flower, a pomegranate with a skin of green tsavorites plus black and canary-yellow tinted diamonds, pear-cut emerald eyes with a rococo south sea pearl in its mouth

2) Titanic Watch From Romain Jerome Costs $152,435
A Swiss jeweler has unveiled his range of designer watches manufactured using the hull of the Titanic, the rarest material on Earth. Priced ranging from £75,000 to any $$$$, the timepieces are seamlessly designed after blending the metal with shipbuilding steel. The black dials are formed mixing the improved coal blazed in the Titanic’s boiler with earthenware.

3) Breguet Double Tourbillion Costs $329,000
Hand embossed with a portrayal of a solar system, the Breguet Double Tourbillion comes equipped with a 95% pure platinum case. Priced at $329,000, the two tourbillons are sovereign from one another yet joined by means of discrepancy mechanism and accumulated on a revolving center plate completing a complete upheaval in 12-hours.

4) Versace $227,000 Jewelry Watch
Baselworld 2008 was a gala event that offered a variety of watches but the highlight of the watch fair remained the Versace “not like a watch” watch. The dial of the watch comes coated with around 122 white diamonds. It is being told that three models of this pricey Destiny watch are being sold signifying the worth of brand.
5) $300,000 Timeless Watch Tells Day & Night
If Versace offering wasn’t sufficed to calm your curiosities’ then keep your fingers upon Baselworld 2008 second offering. Depicting day and night time for you, the unique timepiece by Romain Jerome makes use of an obscure Tourbillon association, exposed to surmount earth’s magnitude that used to have a crash on the exactness of watches. Successful in inviting the attention of watch aficionados, it can only be yours if you have spare $300,000.

6) Chapter One Timepiece from Maîtres du Temps Costs $400k
The elegant appeal of ‘The Chapter One watch’ from Maîtres du Temps is a reflection of a worthy alliance between stylish watch manufacturers (designers) Christophe Claret, Peter Speake-Marin and Roger Dubuis. It features a Tourbillon, display GMT and date pointer, mono-pusher chronograph with a 60-minute rotation. Retailed at $400,000, the cost is set minus Swarovski Crystals (crushed glass).

7) Patek Philippe Wristwatch for £1.1million
The antique valuable wristwatch belonging to an Italian magnate, Count Carlo Felice Trossi fetched him £1.1million at a Sotheby’s auction house in Geneva. Called the “Trossi Leggenda”, the model was the highlight amongst other 200 timepieces.

Maurice Lacroix Unveils Starside Watches
Maurice Lacroix’s latest offering of Starside series of watches was exhibited at the Basel show. With its starry appeal, the three limited-edition timepieces sports a 38mm stainless steel container layered with sapphire crystals. Other highlighting specks include the hours, minutes and seconds signal via hands, date indication with central hand and many others.
The pliable dial comes adorned with 32 diamonds and is available in various shades viz. pink, black or beige.

9) Bejeweled Concord C1 Chronograph
Baselworld 2008 was no less than a gateway to the world of designer watches. After Versace designer watch and $300,000 Timeless Watch, here is another model that would offer a necessary update to your wardrobe. The C1 chronograph comes surrounded with a layer of gold and diamonds and features features complex 44mm cases expertise from 18K white gold fitted in 53 individual elements along with 184 diamonds.

10) Piaget love letter limelight watch
The romantic watch collection from Piaget pursues an envelope-concept that camouflages a love letter as their chief formulate model. Christened as love letter limelight watches, these reduced envelopes unfold to expose a black or mother-of-pearl dial set noticeable with diamond. Perfect for a valentine mood!

11) Chopard Unveils $25 mn Watch; World’s Most Expensive One
If the list of aforementioned 10 timepieces is not of your types then here is something that would surely enter your ears, break through your eyes and would surely do a deep hole ion your pocket. Touted as the world’s most expensive watch, the Chopard’s offering of a $25, 000,000 watch has already broken few heads. Justifying its cost, the watch comes festooned with three heart-shaped diamonds weighing 38 carats. So by inking this neat deal, you would be taking home 200-carats diamonds.

Stay tune for our upcoming compilation of next top 11. Free feel to drop us tips about the prospective category niche that you would like us to capture during next weekend!

Russia was in news days back for unveiling alien cars with little knowledge that it had its eyes upon marking a bling statement as well. And if that 24-carat gold encrusted wheels or Bentley’s Gold-bathed coupe failed to invite your attention then here is a feast for your eyes. The second model of Porsche comes slapped with gold and is all set to burn the roads. The jazzy Porsche 911 is from Russia and would sit quietly in any filthy-rich’s parking lot as it is layered with around 40 pounds of the pure gold, making the proud owner think and rethink for taking it out in dusty environs.

It’s “Khokhloma style” tail comes festooned with gold. But it is not the end. The floor mats of the Porsche 911 are designed to gel with its glitzy face. It seems to declare that Russia bleeds Gold.
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Summerlicious 2008 would have missed its current charm in Toronoto, had the event won’t have being harmonized with unique dining experience. Jerrold from BlogTO details his experience of having an epicurean cuisine at 115-feet above the ground during Dinner in the Sky event in Toronoto. A colossal industrialized gantry was used to hoist up and swing a 5-tonne, 22-person table over a red-carpeted Yonge-Dundas plaza. The event sponsored by the American Express remained the highlight of the summer food festival.
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Fitted tight yet comfortable onto the seat, the concerned incumbent is then taken 35m above the ground, where he is served with champagne.

If you wish to throw a Dinner in the Sky kinda event for your upcoming party, then the group offers adapted bottom streamer to frenzied seats. Usually, the platform spreads across 1 x 5 meters work area, and comes outfitted with cooking prerequisites, including a stimulation oven. Their partner company Altitude Concepts Productions provides a host of turnkey offers for every nature of Dinner in the Sky events.

The service is available across the globe i.e. The Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, UAE, South-Africa, Turkey, Australia, Canada, Bulgaria, Spain, India, Italy, Danemark and USA.



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Diamonds are known for its spell bounding beauty, spirited resistance, devout purity and seamless personality. And if you are fortunate enough to don your gadgets and must-carry thingamajigs with such precious stones then go ahead to change your current model with diamond encrusted Nokia N95. Designed and developed by Continental Mobiles, it doesn’t enjoy an edge over Amosu’s diamond bathed BlackBerry edition but surely short fall short from attaining the tag of a magnum opus.

The handset sports a silky Sterling silver front panel layered with 4.42ct of brilliant-cut, VS1 eminence, color G-H, diamonds mined via natural form, and to my much surprise each model is customized by an artistic craftsmen. This elite offering from the house of Continental Mobiles address a new meaning to the world of technical merit in synergy with screaming beauty of diamonds with a retail price of £10,000.

Every automobile exhibition carries with it some element of bling to restrain the attention of its elite customers’. And the customary ritual is being practiced at the ongoing International Motocycle show in Seattle offering a radiant wheel structure. You may call it chopper and she may label it as an artistic masterpiece but to me it seems no less than a functional sculpture. True, there is no dearth of ornamented wheels i.e. £9,500 Gold Bicycle, $800,000 ASI’s Bentley, bejeweled low-rider tricycle and others but the revolutionary offering of gold-plated custom chopper demands $500,000.

I am sure the filthy-rich would like to ink this neat deal as there is no other way to value their piled up dough. After a long oration, I now take a long breath and would allow you to enjoy a virtual ride over this chopper. Enjoy the video of the Custom Star Yamaha with similar looks that was featured at the 2007 International Motorcycle Show

If you are looking for ways to do justice to that piled up dough and fond of wheels then here comes a neat prospective purchase for you. The vehicle in reference is an Amphibious RV ($850,000-$1.2 million) from Terra Wind that unfolds as a boat with a mission to drive right into a lake and keep on departing. It’s time to carry your amphibious PC and carry on with your schedules while strolling in the Amphibious RV. Designed and developed considering the comfort level of filthy rich, one part of the RV features decked-out motor home and from other angle it seems crazy-lake-going-vessel.

The RV makes you indulge in deluxe environs with its hand crafted interiors. It sports GPS, tons of leather, DVD/VHS/CD players, refrigerator, washer, dryer, 8-jet whirlpool tub, marble floors, shower, 42-inch Plasma TV, and a 6-foot swim deck that enhances your fishing experience.

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You are wrong if you think that only revealing and trendy silhouettes gets an invitation to undergo a blingy treatment and within no time evolve in their shining new avatar. Whilst Triumph Luxurious Diamond Thong layered with countless diamonds may seem a confrontation to my argument but the news about World’s Most Expensive Abaya, a traditional form of Islamic dress stands high to defend it. Abaya, the simplest form of dressing accepted by Islamic religion was picked by British couture designer Bruce Oldfield. The bejeweled Abaya features 4,668 diamonds weighing 359.7 grams of white gold. Bruce in association with Crosley Diamonds based in London has unveiled this luxury called World’s Most Expensive Abaya.

They say the deluxe Abaya is expected to be sold off at The Gulf Luxury Trade falling coming month for $350,000. The sales generated would be donated towards the relief charity “Islamic Relief.” Popularly known electronic violinist and former model Linzi Stoppard is the proud foremost person to don it.

Middle of this month we introduced you to an outdoor LCD TV Sanyo’s new 52″ LCD high-definition monitor that claims to be weather resistant and takes pride in owning marine grade construction. But enhancing your outdoor TV-viewing experience, here is an ultra-elite model by MarineAV. The 70′’ weatherproof LCD TV “LCD70” is not to mention a giant screen featuring a Samsung LCD panel, integrated real time clock that allows fortunate holders to enjoy the power turn-on/off access, AV, S-Video, component, HDMI, PC (VGA) and is remote controlled.

Retailed at $55,500, the model sports a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, contrast ratio of 1500:1, brightness: 600 cd/m², response time 8ms, 16.7 m colors and a viewing angle of 178°x 178°. The offering doesn’t demand any second thought and is worth installing in your courtyard.

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