18 Luxury Gifts for the Super Rich
Your family and friends will love this luxurious yacht designed by Palmer Johnson, a one-of-a-kind vessel that features multiple deck areas, including a jacuzzi on the fly bridge, five staterooms that can accomodate up to 10 guests and a spacious full-beam master cabin. There's no time like the present for charting a course to a tropical island.
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If you're looking for an extraordinary gift for someone that has everything, consider "The Royal Blue." This 10.06-carat natural fancy blue diamond is one of the world's rarest natural gemstones. It is the color of a clear blue sky and certified by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) as being almost flawless VVS1 clarity.
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Do you know someone who dreams of owning a fast red sportscar? Give them the gift of a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster. It comes with an exclusive exterior color, Rosso Veneno, and can hit a top speed of 221 mph and sprint from zero to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds.
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Goldgenie is now taking preorders for those who desire an iPhone 6 with a pink diamond. It costs a mere $48.5 million. But if you want luxury with a more reasonable price tag, then order the Diamond Ecstasy limited-edition iPhone 6, coated with your choice of gold, platinum or rose gold and hundreds of diamonds and precious stones. You can keep the cost closer to $3.5 million, depending on the stones you choose.
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It's been said that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but recently the precious stones have been making it into pampered pets' lives. The pups may not know their Amour Amour dog collar is made with 1,600 diamonds and crocodile leather, but they will feel like top dogs wearing it. Right?
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Give the gift that that can help save our fiercest felines as they struggle to survive extinction. Cosponsor and participate in a Big Cats initiative led by National Geographic Explorers Dereck and Beverly Joubert and a team of experts. They'll fly you and a guest to Africa, bringing you up close and personal with these magnificent big cats.
Some people give the gift of cars or planes, but it shows great imagination to give the gift of a personal submarine. The company, DeepFlight, was founded in 1996 with the goal of developing underwater technologies to expand human access into the oceans. This Super Falcon Mark II Submarine is easy to drive, safe to operate around swimmers and will fit on most yachts — so you can take it along on all your adventures.
The founders of The House of Solid Gold, Hugh Power and Dan Bull, designed this two-wheeler out of 24-carat gold with an alligator leather covered seat. Their logo is encrusted with black diamonds and golden sapphires and, as an added touch, the bottle included is also made of gold.
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Dolce & Gabbana has designed one of the most expensive and exclusive pair of sunglasses in the fashion world. The frame is made of gold with brown-tinted lens, and the logo is engraved and inset with sparkling diamond bits.
Bottles of Clive Christian No. 1 Imperial Majesty, the most costly perfume on the planet, are designed with a 5-carat white precious stone on the neck and encompassed in a 18-carat gold collar.
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Who wouldn't want to travel through time on an "excellent adventure" with Keanu Reeves? Neiman Marcus' 2015 List of Fantasy Gifts offers that chance. For $150,000, three customers can take home a 121-horsepower bike designed by the movie star in partnership with famed custom-bike builder Gard Hollinger, and then cruise on their new choppers down the California coastline alongside the duo.
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Dollar Shave Club? Try $100,000 Shave Club. A team of scientists spent three years creating the Zaffirro Iridium razor, developed using some of the rarest, strongest and most technically advanced materials in existence.
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Imagine looking down on earth from the edge of space. The "World View Exploration" experience offered by Neiman Marcus as part of its 2015 List of Fantasy Gifts lets buyers do just that. The two-part jaunt kicks off in Tucson, Ariz. with a three-day stay that includes a tour of Biosphere 2 and culminates in 2017 aboard a luxury pressurized capsule strapped to a high-altitude balloon 100,000 feet from the ground, with staggering 360-degree views of Earth.
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In 1837, European noblemen searching for the finest quality harnesses and bridles went straight to Thierry Hermés. In 1922, Thierry's grandson, Emile-Maurice, created the first handbag collection himself after his wife complained she couldn't find one anywhere. Fast forward to the present and you find the ultimate luxury handbag, the Hermés Black Graphite Birkin bag crafted from crocodile leather and gold hardware. A collectors' piece!
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Give a gift that's out of this world! Imagine owning a thousand year old piece of the cosmos that appears to have been chiseled by a master sculptor! In fact, the hole on this meteorite was shaped through the process of terrestrialization (exposure to the elements). Christie's is holding an online auction for this Superb Gibeon Meteorite, with the estimated cost topping $120,000.
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Turn the music up! Sennheiser's Orpheus HE 1060 headphones are said to be the best headphones ever created. They're made with gold-vaporized ceramic electrodes and platinum-vaporized diaphragms and ear cups finished in leather. You can get them for a mere $55,000.
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Designer Roland Iten was so outraged by the horrific violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo that he decided to create some optimism in the form of these exquisite, wearable creations. The Fonderie 47 Cufflinks are made from the metal of AK-47 rifles retrieved from Africa, sustainably sourced 18-carat rose gold, platinum and conflict-free diamonds.
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Buying a watch for a person who has everything can be incredibly difficult, but Randy Brandoff, founder of Eleven James, has reinvented the process. He created a membership-based service that allows customers to "rent" luxury watches before buying them. The most exclusive plan is the Virtuoso Collection, which includes six watches per year — a new one every two months — for $15,108.
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