This particular gadget shows us how state of the art mobile phones like the recently launched iPhone 5 can be unveiled one day and be instantly outmatched by another phone, more powerful or more luxurious. The gorgeous Ulysse Nardin Chairman Diamond Edition is reportedly the most expensive phone manufactured by Scientific Cellular Innovations (SCI) to date.
Encased in 18 carat white gold and embellished with 3,100 highest quality round brilliant cut hand-set diamonds, totaling in excess of 20 carats, this superb mobile phone will only be manufactured as a limited edition of 100 units. It’s destined to be used by rich folk who feel the need to combine art with day to day gadgetry.
It encompasses a plethora of design elements signed Ulysse Nardin, with the most distinguishable being the mechanical watch rotor. If you flip the phone over, the rotor can be admired underneath a sapphire crystal covering, in action, fulfilling its double role – to provide power to the power reserve of phone as well as to create kinetic energy with every movement of the phone, similarly to a regular wristwatch.
Each of these 100 touchscreen smartphones will be individually numbered, assembled and manufactured by hand from more than 300 individual parts, all crafted from the most top notch materials of today, like hand-finished anodized aerospace grade aluminum alloy. The price tags will probably require extremely deep pockets.
[LuxuryInsider]
