If you thought that Vertu, Porsche Design, Prada and Tag Heuer smartphones were an expensive feat in the luxury segment, here are a few handsets that make the designer gadgets look like a cheap buy on the price of purchase scale.
With gold customisations, diamond encrusting and sapphire indestructibility, Stuart Hughes seems to be the current customisation king of the most expensive cellphones in the world, but hey, we do have some, dare we say, budget $1 million options too
$5 Million and Counting…
Stuart Hughes iPhone 5 Black Diamond
Cost: $16 million approx
The leader of the lot, this made-to-order handset was delivered to an anonymous Chinese buyer, who now holds a phone loaded with 135gm of 24k gold, a sapphire screen glass, a single flawless black 26 carat deep cut diamond as the navigation button, and an iPhone 5 chassis inlaid with 600 white flawless diamonds.
Completing the phone is the rear section dressed in gold, a scratch-proof sapphire screen, and a solid gold logo with 53 flawless diamonds.
Stuart Hughes iphone 4S Elite Gold
Cost: $12.7 million approx
This one’s a treat in gold what with 24ks adorning the back panel, the logo, the base of the main navigation and a rose gold bezel.
Diamonds studded on the limited-to-2 64GB edition includes 500 individual flawless diamonds (over 100 carat) on the bezel, 53 diamonds on the logo, and a single cut 8.6 carat diamond on the navigation key (women can replace it with a rare 7.4 carat single cut flawless pink diamond for that added touch of femininity).
The package is just as interesting as the phone is housed in a solid Platinum box with polished pieces of original Dinosaur bone from the T-REX along with rare stones such as Opal, Pietersite, Charoite, Rutile Quartz and Star Sunstone.
Stuart Hughes iPhone 4 Diamond Rose Edition
Cost: $8 million approx
This 32GB limited-to-2 edition is structured out of rose gold for the back panel, and the Apple logo is studded with 53 diamonds. The rose bezel circulating the phone boasts of an additional 500 flawless diamonds totaling 100 carat.
Finished with a 7.4 carat pink diamond on the platinum navigation key, Stuart Hughes gives you the option of alternatively selecting a rare 8 carat, single cut flawless diamond, if pink is not quite your style.
The handset is presented in a 7kg imperial pink granite chest, which is lined using Nubuck top grain leather.
Just About $1 Million
Peter Aloisson’s Diamond Crypto Smartphone
Cost: $1.3 million
Not particularly a looker this one, the phone is built on a humble Windows CE base, but comes decked with 50 sparkling diamonds and 10 rare blue ones.
The phone is made in collaboration with Moscow-based JSC Ancort, which means an addition of 18k gold on the company’s logo and the phone’s navigation key.
GoldVish 'Le million' Piece Unique
Cost: $1 million
The Goldvish handset has been rolled out in a numbered series of 100, each featuring 120 carats of VVS-1 grade diamonds, set on 18kt white gold.
Swedish designer Emmanuel Gueit’s bling creation underneath it all hosts features like an 8mp camera, 2GB memory card, Bluetooth, and oddly enough only the EDGE connection—no 3G or WiFi.
The Gresso Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot
Cost: $1 million
Bringing together 45.5 carat black diamonds and 180g of 18k gold, this handset also hosts a keypad with 17 manually-polished and laser-etched sapphires weighing 32 carat.
The limited-to-3 numbered edition makes a clean finish with an exotic 200-year-old African Blackwood panel on the rear and a gold embellished bezel, all in a compact 12mm thin grip.
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