A blue diamond of 13.39 cts. became the most important color diamond sold at auction anywhere in the world during the past 10 years, according to Christie’s.
Offered at auction house’s in Geneva location on Wednesday, it achieved a world record price of $8.9 million.
“This impressive result is due to the scarcity of colored diamonds on the market, and to the great demand from collectors around the world for exceptional artworks and jewels that is currently dominating the auction world,” said François Curiel, chairman of Christie’s Europe. Via JCK
The 150’ (45.7m) M/Y HokulaniI has a spectacularly contemporary interior.
Built in 2007 by Palmer Johnson, this luxurious superyacht has plenty of exterior deck space for relaxing, large swim platform, and dining for 10 in the spacious dining room. There are five staterooms.
There is also a Lantic fully integrated and centralized entertainment system in every cabin and space for Music (inc iPod), Radio, TV, and Movies.
The HOKULANI is available to charter through IYC at a rate of EUR175,000 / week in the West Mediterranean – Riviera/Corsica/Sardinia for Summer 2008 and EUR160,000 / week in Winter 2008/09 in the West Med.
Singapore Airlines is installing iPod docks and 15.4-inch widescreen LCDs in their all-Business Class Airbus A340-500 flights between NY/LA and Singapore.
Whilst two years ago, the crew promoted their luxury seats with superior first class cabin that were packed with largest chairs in the sky.
The proviso will facilitate flyers to enjoy movies and music via integrated noise-proof headphones that gets switched off as and when any announcement is made from the flight crew. Via gizmodo
Davidoff of Geneva has introduced a new brand of cigars called Winston Churchill.
Named after one of the world’s most notable cigar icons, the project was a collaboration between Churchill’s grandson Winston S. Churchill and Davidoff’s Henke Kelner.
The Winston Churchill is the only brand with full Cuban seed tobacco produced by Davidoff.
Autoelex’s Luxury Pet House is a one of a kind product. It’s a 7 star hotel for your pet.
When your beloved pet is not feeling well just pop it in and you can control the chamber’s humidity, temperature, lighting and ventilation all the way to a speedy recovery.Until now, you could only find this product in Korea, at $10,000 a piece !
Autoelex’s Digital Incubator series were featured last week at Koreannovation, the Korean Trade Show in New York City, among other products ranging from Corporate Commercial products to Home Appliances.
Two prized local melons fetched a record price of 2.5 million yen for the pair during the season’s first auction at a wholesale market on Tuesday.
“I had expected Yubari melons would fetch a high price, but I didn’t expect the figure to be this high,” said a startled broker at the Sapporo City Central Wholesale Markets in Sapporo’s Chuo-ku.
The pair of melons, which weigh 3.9 kilograms in total, fetched the record price of 2.5 million yen after 100 melons were put up for auction on Tuesday.
