Ultra-luxurious Christmas
If your budget starts at 1200 € and can reach for the sky, here are a few precious ideas to pick up some very special gifts…
Roberto Coin in reptile mode
New in the Italian jeweller’s bestiary: Roberto Coin celebrates the coming Chinese Year of the Snake by designing two exceptional pieces showing a Royal Cobra set with black and white diamonds, and extremely pure sapphires. Each piece of this extraordinary menagerie is set with a total of 100 carats, so much so that the jeweller won’t disclose the prices.
Cottin: the crème de la crème of the computers
Well, here is a totally French-made computer: Cottin 413! Far from the cheap disposable computer, François Cottin and his masters-craftmen conceived a wonderful marriage between technology and design. Each hand-made model is unique, of course, built in Paris and custom-made: engravings, metals, leathers, jewellery and marquetry, your choice! Last but not least, each piece encloses ultra performing components, the same as used by the military or in aerospace. If it takes your fancy to invade Russia, be Cottin’s guest!!!
Price: from 12,600 €
Laurent-Perrier Company: you don’t get 200 everyday!
The Laurent-Perrier Company takes its bicentennial festivities seriously and makes it a première: it repeats its very first creation: the Grand Siècle vintage. It is a limited Cuvée N° 571J edition, of course, and some of the bottles have been slowly maturing and sleeping in the silence of the house cellars for 16 years, patiently waiting for this exceptional anniversary. It’s high time to wake them up!
Price: 1,200 € for the magnum bottle, and 2,350 € for the jeroboam
The Pen of year 2012 by Faber-Castell
For its pen of year 2012, Faber-Castell invited two wonderful guests of honor: fossilized oak, a symbol of eternity, some pieces having rested up to 8,000 years in marshes and swamps, and gold, the “king of the kings”. Each gold leaf is applied by hand with a vair brush. This used to be a favored Egyptian technique, dating back four millenaries. Nowadays, craftsmen mastering it are extremely few. More than a pen, it’s a piece of eternity you hold in your hands…
Price : 3,500 €, and limited to1500 only
Technogym: Bicycle 2.0
In-between a computer and an exercise bike, Personal Recline by Technogym takes you over the fatal 3 weeks deadline when we drop any other exercise bike. With its cyclic vital functions, its sophisticated programs and its over-equipped internet, the steel legged geek will surf and pedal at the same time, but 15 centimeters from the sofa, you never know…
Price : 6,980 €
Décembre 2012
