Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online
Can’t decide whether to get precious stones or cutting-edge technology for your significant other this Valentine’s Day? Thanks to one UK-based luxury retailer, you no longer have to choose between the two!
Goldgenie, a company that specializes in providing customization of household items, is now offering the Diamond Ecstasy Collection line of Apple iPhone 6s. These limited-edition products are finished in a choice of 24-karat gold, rose gold, or platinum, complete with embedded diamonds.
Bling-bling
Clients can customize the phone by choosing which type of precious metal finish and stones (white, pink, or black diamonds, as well as emeralds, rubies, sapphires and more) they want, and they can even add personal engraving, the company’s website explained. Prices for the Diamond Collection phones start at “just £10,000 ($15,200) and rise to £2.3million ($3.5 million).”
“We are inviting clients to participate in the creative process and customize their iPhone exactly to their preferences,” Goldgenie founder Laban Roomes explained in a blog entry Tuesday. “This range and bespoke service is to cater to clients who have a taste for emeralds, rubies, and other precious and semi-precious stones, along with rare colored diamonds.”
“This choice in gemstones, along with our laser engraving options will ensure that the phone is a statement piece that blurs the boundaries between fine jeweler and modern technology and will ensure that the phone is truly the client’s own,” Roomes added.
But wait! There’s more!
The phones are all SIM free and unlocked so that they can be used on any wireless network, the company added, and all of their products come with a special cherry oak finish box to keep it in. Oh, and for extra value (as if it needs any), it also comes with Apple EarPods with remote and mic functions, a 5W USB power adapter, a lighting-to-USB cable, documentation, and clear-coat body protection.
“With a name like ‘Diamond Ecstasy,’ you’re going to have high expectations,” and Goldgenie’s limited-edition handsets “pretty much delivers on that promise of affluent euphoria,” CNET.com explained, noting that in theory the phones could exceed the upper-living $3.5 million price tag. “This is not a phone meant for the masses. This is a phone meant for people with private jets and their own vineyards who kick around on weekends on a personal tropical island.”
Goldgenie reportedly sold five orders for the least expensive version of the phone – three of which were for the 24-karat gold version, while the other two were for the rose gold edition of the smartphone. Furthermore, a regular Russian client of the company is planning to fly over to London in order to personalize his own unique blinged-out iPhone in person.
If you buy one, you’ll be in good company, as Pocket Lint said that Elton John, P. Diddy, and David and Victoria Beckham are among Goldgenie’s clients. However, if a million-dollar phone isn’t your speed, the company offers a number of other blinged-out items, including a 24-karat gold British racing bicycle and shoes that have been customized with Swarovski Crystals.
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