Covered in Gold

Gold has been a valuable and highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewellery, and other arts since long before the beginning of recorded history

It has become extremely popular for the rich and famous to cover their everyday items in gold. The coating with precious metals has a decorative and protective purpose, especially in the jewelry business, where it is used extensively to produce less expensive items which resemble gold in aspect and beauty. In industries such as electronics, gold plating is used to obtain highly-conductive electrical components which are also very resistant to corrosion. As such, luxury gadgets connoisseurs can be even more in style by using a 24 karats gold-plated laptop, a 24 karats gold plated 160GB iPod Classic, or a 24karats gold plated iPhone.

(http://www.goldgenie.com/32gb-iphone-superstar-gold-with-diamond-p-502.html)  Gold Genie in London has recently released the iPhone 4 Superstar with SOLID 18ct.Gold rear with VS1 5.47ct. Certified diamond bezel, embellished sides and buttons retailed at £9,495.00. Many may think this is outrageous, spending almost £10,000 on the luxury of a gold phone, however for those believers, they may find my next feature rather ‘unbelievable’. 

iPhone 4 Superstar with SOLID 18ct.Gold rear with VS1 5.47ct

British Jeweler, Stuart Hughes is responsible for designing a gold-plated yacht. 

The story released states that the 100ft vessel, ‘History Supreme’ is said to be world's most expensive at a staggering 3 billion pounds with 100,000 kilograms of solid gold and platinum and all features including the deck, dinning area and rails are made from precious metals. The anchor is even made from solid gold."

    100' MY History Supreme. 

The sleeping quarters are covered in platinum, it has a statue made from the bone of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the deck, dining areas, rails and anchor are also made from precious metals including platinum.

If the $3.4 billion figure is accurate the most likely buyer is Robert Kuok, the richest man in Malaysia, with a net worth of $12.5 billion.

That’s over ten times the amount Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovitch spent on his mega yacht, Eclipse that is the largest in the world at 163.5 m (536 ft) long, which is more than 5 times the size of ‘History Supreme’, It was also reported that Hughes, has just made a 5 million pound diamond-wrapped iPhone.         

Roman Abramovitch's Super Yacht 'Eclipse' (163.5m)

Stuart Hughes is famously known for creating luxury gadgets, other examples of his work include this pimped out version of the iPad2, made with 2000 grams of solid 24-carat gold and 53 gems, including multiple diamonds. Also featuring the world’s oldest rock, ammolite, and some Tyrannosaurus Rex thigh bone, this iPad 2 had a price tag of $8,254,150.

Some people like to bathe in luxury – bathing themselves in things like champagne or chocolate. Well why not take the opulence factor up a few notches and bathe in style. For instance this bathtub made with 24-carat white gold tiles was designed by Japanese manufacturer INAX and put on display in the company’s Tokyo showroom in August 2010. The price tag: $94,000.

 Hang Fu­ng Gold Technology Group in Hong Kong has a showroom that features the "Hall of Gold," which contains several opulent handcrafted treasures. But the tourist favorite is "The World's Most Expensive Gold and Jewelry Sparkling Environmental Friendly Washroom". Perhaps the most admired item in the gold bathroom is the 24-carat solid gold  toilet. The company's owners stipulated that if the price of gold reaches $1,000 per ounce, one ton (32,000 ounces) the tourist attraction will be melted into bullion and sold  The company would gross a cool $32 million, and the owners would net about $17.6 million.

 Solid Gold Facts

A total of around 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, This is roughly equivalent to 5.3 billion troy ounces or, in terms of volume, about 8500 m³, or a cube 20.4 m on a side. The world consumption of new gold produced is about 50% in jewellery, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.

Gold Mine: Open pit. 

With the price of gold escalating in the stock markets it is becoming even more a luxury to splash out on the precious metal.  Never the less, there is certainly no shortage of Gold when Korean designer Daisung Kim is able to create luxury pencils, which have a thin 24-carat layer of gold plating. 


They currently retail in the U.S. for approximately $20.