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Actually, got a LOT of extra money to spend? While looking for the most exclusive and expensive things money can buy, one thing became really clear to me. All you need to do is add gold, platinum, silver, diamonds and other precious stones to anything and you have earned yourself the ‘most expensive’ tag for that particular item category. So while it wasn’t surprising to see the most expensive, dresses, lingerie, shoes, watches and of course pieces of jewelry full of the above, some other items were quite shocking to say the least. Precious metals and stones were added to the most unthinkable items. So here you have it, all the bling and baubles in the most unlikely places.

 

The Most Expensive Computer Mouse
Price tag: USD 24,180
Pat Says Now, a Swiss manufacturer has made the most expensive computer mouse in the world. It is cast from 18 carat white gold and set with 59 brilliant cut diamonds. There are two designs to choose from, the beautiful “Diamond Flower” design and the “Scattered Diamond” design. You can choose your mouse in yellow, white or red gold with black or white trim. How much for the mouse pad to keep this on?

 

The Most Expensive iPhone Case
Price Tag: USD 20,000
iPhone CaseCase-mate’s ingeniously named “Diamond Case” for the iPhone is made with 42 nuggets of expensive stones, totaling 3.5 carats, and is embedded in 18k gold. Wouldn’t I just buy 50 iPhones instead?

 

The Most Expensive Corkscrew
Price tag: USD 71,000
Frank Sveid’s corkscrew is the most expensive one in the world. The fifty-two pieces of this corkscrew are made from aviation titanium and the fingertip level is made of eighteen carat platinum or yellow gold. One also has the option of the hinges being cast in gold. The box that the corkscrew sits in can also be customized with many different options for types of wood and color of lining. The presentation box and the corkscrew can both be engraved. When not in use, the corkscrew can be folded compactly.

 

The Most Expensive TV
Price tag: USD 130,000
The Yalos Diamond LCD TV is plated in white gold and encrusted with 20 carats worth of diamonds. Just what everyone needs! Hope they gave enough thought to the picture and sound quality as well.

 

The Most Expensive Tea Bag
Price tag: $14,000
PG Tips is a British company that makes tea. They celebrated their 75th birthday by getting Boodles jewelers, an exclusive jeweler based in the UK, to make a diamond teabag. The tea bag was hand-crafted using 280 diamonds.

 

The Most Expensive Cricket Ball
Price tag: $68,000
This diamond studded cricket ball was presented to the Best Indian and Best International players at the 2007 Cricket World Cup tournament. The diamond cricket ball was created by Gitanjali Gems Limited, India. Each diamond ball is studded with 5,728 pieces of diamonds. Boy that should give them more than enough incentive to win!

 

The Most Expensive Cellphone
Price tag: USD 1.45 Million
This GoldVish phone has been certified the most expensive in the world–1 million euros, or about $1.45 million. The odd-shaped device is made out of 18-carat white gold and features 1,800 diamonds totaling 120 carats. A Russian businessman bought Le Million for his wife last September at a luxury goods fair in Cannes, France. It comes with GPRS, EDGE, Quad-band, Bluetooth, 2.0 Megapixel camera, FM-radio, MP3 player, stereo speakers, 2 GB SD memory card, Email, SMS, EMS, MMS, handsfree function, 262.000 colour TFT display with a resolution of 176 × 220 pixels and voice memo. Hmm… at least it has all the add on features I can think of.

 

The Most Expensive Board Game
Price tag: USD 14,900
Outrage! Deluxe is the most expensive board game ever created. The game represents a detailed plan of the Tower of London and is set in a mahogany cabinet. Each piece of the game is exquisitely created with sterling silver. The replicas of the Crown Jewels are fashion in 18-carat solid gold and are studded with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, and rubies. Imagine if you lose a piece…

 

The Most Expensive Christmas Tree
Price Tag: USD 1,005,00
Soo Kee Jewellery in Singapore offer a Christmas tree that’s decorated with 21,798 diamonds totaling 913 carats, 3,762 crystal beads and 456 lights. The tree is 6 meters tall and weighs a jolly 3,215 kilograms. Now this would make anyone’s Christmas really merry.

 

The Most Expensive Dog Collar
Price Tag: USD 1,800,000
In 2007 the people at I Love Dogs Diamonds have designed the Amour dog collar which boasts a hundred carats+ of sparkling diamonds and exquisite jewels, including a seven carat brilliant cut center diamond. Anyone would love a dog that wears that.

 

The Most Expensive Eggs
Price Tag: USD 9,579,500
In the 1880’s Peter Carl Fabergé was commissioned by the Russian Czar Alexander to create an Easter gift for this wife, the Empress Marie. They were so impressed that he commissioned a new egg every Easter until his death after which his son Nicholas II continued the tradition. Peter Carl Fabergé created a total of 57 eggs which are worth millions each. Each Egg is made of Siberian rock crystal, more than 4,500 diamonds, and a platinum Easter basket with flowers in gold, garnets, and crystals. What can I say? It’s an egg and you cannot eat it! Actually with that price tag, you had better not be able to eat it.

 

The Most Expensive Hourglass
Price Tag: USD 6,400,000
A shop in Thailand replaced the sand in an hourglass with diamonds, 10,000 carats of them. If you drop and break that one, plenty of people will help you clean up.

 

The Most Expensive Lipstick
Price Tag: USD 62,000
KissKiss Gold and Diamonds by Guerlain is a replica of the 2005 KissKiss lipstick case created by Echaudemaison and designer Herve Van Der Straeten. The case is made from 110 grams of 18 carat gold and 199 diamonds and you can have it engraved with a name or message if you wish. The lipstick comes in its own case, a black lacquered wooden case, along with a lip brush and black suede pouch. The lipstick is available in 15 customizable shades.

 

The Most Expensive Monopoly Set
Price Tag: USD 2,000,000
Sidney Mobell, a jeweler from San Francisco made a Monopoly set in 1988 in which the houses and hotels were solid gold, the pips in the dice were diamonds and the board was made of sapphires, rubies and gold. Umm, now who could I trust enough to play that with?

 

The Most Expensive Nail Polish
Price Tag: USD 250
The most expensive nail polish on the market is “I Do”, and is the teamwork of Allure magazine, platinum supplier Johnson Matthev, PGI and Essie Cosmetics. The sheer nail polish has enough platinum to make your nails shimmer and shine. Each bottle of this nail polish sells for $250. However, the very first batch of the polish was placed in a special bottle made with a platinum top and base, which is on display and is valued at $55,000.

 

The Most Expensive Pencil
Price Tag: USD 12,800
To celebrate its 240 year anniversary in 2007 Graf von Faber-Castell built a pencil from 240 year old olive wood in your choice of stainless steel or white gold. The cap was encrusted with 3 diamonds and it also had a built in pencil sharpener. Now why would I sharpen the most expensive pencil in the world? To finish it off?!!

 

 

The Most Expensive Skull
Price Tag: USD 50 – 90 million
This was an odd one. Damien Hurst was commissioned by David Beckman to sculpt the piece as consolation for Victoria since the Queen did not grant her the status of “Lady”. This art piece is a life-sized, platinum skull covered with 8,601 diamonds totaling 1,106.18 carats, and weighs 63 pounds. Now that would be just as heavy as Victoria herself, what say? And why in God’s name a skull of all things?

 

The Most Expensive Soap
Price Tag: USD 125 for a 120 gram bar
Plank created a soap, called Cor, containing silver, four different types of collagen, chitosan and sericin. Basically it’s supposed to make your skin look fabulous. Being the most expensive soap on Earth, I’d expect nothing less.

 

The Most Expensive Stool
Price Tag: USD 1.3 million
A stool made of solid gold that weighs 110 pounds. Now you gotta have a lot of spare cash if you buy this one. Do some to charity!

 

The Most Expensive Teddy Bear
Price Tag: USD 193,000
To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Teddy Bear a German company created a limited edition of 125 bears with solid gold mouths and diamonds and sapphires for eyes for the cost: £43,000.00 making it the world’s most expensive available Teddy Bear. The highest price ever paid for a single Teddy Bear was $193,000.00 USD.

 

The Most Expensive Tie
Price Tag: USD 250,000
The world’s most expensive tie was created by designer Satya Paul for the Suashish Diamond group and was modeled at a 2004 Mumbai fashion show by Salman Khan. The tie is made of pure silk and studded with 261 diamonds. Considering the price and looking at the picture I wish the diamonds had been more imaginatively set.

 

Now how many of these are actually useful and justify the presence of the stones? But when you have that much money to throw away, you wouldn’t really be looking for justification. You would just want to own what others may only just desire. A lot of this information came from here, a really cool site with a lot of similar trivia. I really want to book a domain that’s longer than this one. Any suggestions? Leave me a comment.

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