Tag: luxury
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These Chanel Tennis Balls Cost $450
First of all, why is Chanel even making, or rather, selling tennis balls? And ok, let’s just overlook that for a minute. What about the fact that they’re selling these for an eye watering, mind-melting, sanity-defying $450? That’s for 4 of them. They come in a leather bag, because of course how else will anyone…
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Would You Spend $1,000 On This Box of Tequila-Infused Chocolates?
Look, we like Tequila and chocolates as much as the next guy, but we’re not sure we’d drop one large on a box of 24. Sure, sure, they’re fancy chocolates by none other than Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolates, but still… How do they try to justify the asking price? Handcrafted over a three day period, each…
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Here’s What A $9,600 Comb Looks Like
We’re rewritten these lines half a dozen times, trying to find the right way to quip about a €9000 ($9,600USD) comb, but… come on: a $9,600 comb?! The joke writes itself! Yes, this is an actual item you can buy, a solid 14K gold comb that comes in a green, red, or purple ostrich carrying…
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Would You Pay $56 For Five Potato Chips?
Well that’s how much ‘S:t Eriks India Pale Ale’, a Swedish beer brand, is charging for what they’re calling “The World’s Most Exclusive Potato Chips”. Sold in a limited edition box containing all of 5 chips, each thin potato wafer contains what sounds like some prime ingredients, such as: – Matsutake With a taste similar…
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Fancy An $825,000 High-Tech Diving Suit?
Sometimes the stuff you find on the ole Hammacher Schlemmer website kind of leaves you scratching you head. I mean, is there really a market for the $825,000 Exosuit, or as the company refers to it, the “Self Propelled Aquanaut’s Suit”? And if you’re going to be spending the better part of a million dollars…
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Set Of Pistols Crafted From 4.5 Billion Year Old Meteorite
A really long time ago, a meteorite landed in what is now Gibeon, Namibia. The space rock itself is estimated to have been formed around the same time the Earth was: 4.5 billion years ago. And now, a US company called Cabot Guns took a 77 pound fragment from the impact, and used that to…
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Rolls-Royce’s Wraith Luggage Collection Costs More Than A Regular Luxury Sedan
If you’re going to drop six digits on a Rolls-Royce vehicle, you might be tempted to think “well, might as well drop five digits on a set of luggage.” That’s at least what the folks at Rolls-Royce are thinking with their Wraith Luggage Collection, for which they’re asking you to part with $45,854. That’s right,…
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This Swiss Watch Has A Drop Of The World’s Oldest Cognac In It
Why? We don’t know. But it looks like independent Swiss watchmaker Armin Strom, and its chief horologist Claude Greisler, decided it would be a good idea to convince the owners of the world’s oldest known Cognac bottle, the Cognac Gaultier 1762, to part with 40 drops of its content. Each drop was then carefully inserted…
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A Meteor Knife With A Damascus Steel Blade
Damascus steel is pretty popular in knife-making these days, due to its unique appearance made by “hammer-welding strips of steel and iron followed by repeated heating and forging”. That’s how it’s done today, although the technique dates back hundreds of years and no one is really sure just how it was made back then. The…
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Behold The Richard Mille RMS05 $105,000 Fountain Pen
We’re used to seeing Swiss watches fetching six figures and more, but it’s the first time we come across a fountain pen created like a precision, luxury watch. The Richard Mille RMS05 is a work of art, for sure, but it’s also a marvel of mechanical engineering, like most sophisticated luxury watches. According to Richard…