Home to a unique perspective of the Melbourne Vista; at the luxury lounge bar Crown’s Club 23, where memories are made and elite retreat to a glamorous evening, an award-winning in-house Australian mixologist Joel Heffernan will now concoct a $12,500 cocktail to break the current world record for the world’s most expensive cocktail held by $8,830 ‘Salvatore’s Legacy’, which was recently developed by world’s acclaimed mixologist Salvatore Calabrese ‘The Maestro’. Set to be claimed as a Guinness world record, the basis of the cocktail will be a bottle of vintage 1858 Croizet cognac, which is already a world record holder for being valued at $157,000. Interestingly, the cocktail will be named ‘Winston’ as in tribute to Britain’s former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who’s on the eve of D-Day back in 1944 is said to have shared a rare bottle of 1858 Croizet with Allies commander General Dwight Eisenhower. Besides, we have also earlier seen the Asia’s most expensive cocktail, the ‘Jewel of Pangaea’ developed by Singapore club Pangaea and luxury jeweler Mouawad.

$12,500 cocktail ‘Winston’ made from 1858 Croizet cognac is on its way to become the most expensive cocktail

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Catering to the huge interest and demand for the precious phones among the affluent individuals and show-business stars, the owner of the jewelry brand Perla Penna, Elijah Giacometti in year 2011 came up with a line of limited-edition, luxury CAVIAR iPhones handcrafted with Italian 18-karat gold, exotic leather and rare materials, and named it after the most expensive food item Caviar. And over the times, the collection of these exclusive Italian smartphones ‘CAVIAR’ has grown to an eclectic range, offering limited-edition, truly work-of-art models based on iPhone 4S and iPhone 5. Now, the renowned Italian jeweler Elijah Giacometti (Elia Giacometti) has come up what is said to be the most brutal male phone ever, the CAVIAR iPhone 5 Titano Diabolo. Limited to just 99 examples, the $4,260 masterpiece comes crafted from titanium and carbon fiber, and has been created with the participation of specialists from Automobili Lamborghini SpA. Besides, we have also earlier seen the world’s first 24 karat gold plated iPhone 5, the world’s most luxurious iPhone 5 collection by Golden Dreams, the $100,000 iPhone 5 case that features natural sapphires and rubies, and the $302,985 most expensive iPhone 5 case by UUnique London.

CAVIAR iPhone 5 Titano Diabolo by Elijah Giacometti is created in cooperation with Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.

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Indian millionaire Datta Phuge, a 32-year-old moneylender from the Pimpri-Chinchwad city of Pune for whom gold is the ultimate passion, commissioned the world’s most expensive shirt which is regarded to be an embellishment to his reputation as the ‘Gold Man of Pimpri’. Highly elated to wear his shiny dream shirt, Mr. Datta Phuge who inherited a fair amount of gold and wants to leave behind a sufficient amount for the next-generation, spent a whopping $235,000 on this custom-made shirt as an investment which will keep appreciating. Crafted out of 3.5kg of 22-carat solid gold, this bling shirt created by Pune-based Ranka Jewelers boasts of 14,000 gold flowerings that have been interwoven with 100,000 spangles sewn into a base of finest white velvet, along with 6 Swarovski Crystal buttons. Notably, 15 goldsmiths labored over 15 days at the rate of 18-hours a day to create this opulent shirt with an armor-like appearance.

Indian businessman Datta Phuge’s most expensive shirt made of 22-karat gold costs $235,000

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The wealthy don’t need a reason to celebrate. Billionaire and real estate tycoon, Donald Trump once splurged $365,000 for a mobile champagne cooler. So for the filthy rich for whom money is no object, Van Perckens, a designer collective that designs and produces limited edition luxury items, has designed the world’s most expensive champagne cooler finished in solid 20 ct. gold in combination with precious stones. The limited-edition Van Perckens Nr.8 Champagne cooler is masterly crafted out of 7kg of 20 ct gold. Described to be a symbiosis of precious metals, crystal, passion and traditional Dutch craftsmanship, this collectors’ edition champagne cooler, is actually the result of the remarkable and labor-intensive production methods that makes it a work of art. Specially created for the billionaire party lovers who spend millions just on champagne, and has an extraordinary sense of style, this gilded champagne cooler take it up a notch with extraordinary details and craftsmanship involved.

Van Perckens Nr.8 Champagne cooler

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Noted for its most luxurious car care products that optimize the majesty of the vehicles they are applied to, and the only establishment that provides car wax individually tailored to your automobile’s requirements, the Scottish specialists in exotic and bespoke car care, holding an exceptional name with the most selective of clientele, Mitchell and King has now launched the world’s most expensive car shampoo. Dubbed as SPA, this completely bespoke car shampoo which is blended using the finest cosmetic ingredients is billed as the ultimate choice for the keen car collector who wishes to enhance the aesthetics and benefit the bodywork of their collector-edition cars. This luxurious bespoke shampoo packed in an engraved crystal decanter is available for $242.

Worlds most expensive car shampoo for luxury cars from Mitchell and King

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The finest, newest, largest and luxurious estate on the San Francisco Bay, Villa Belvedere, which sits on the gated and lushly landscaped 1.14 acre lot and boasts a 15,000 square-feet residence, will now be offered at a private auction sale with an original list price of $45 million, with the portion of the proceeds to benefit the Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, along with another buyer’s choice charity. Offering unobstructed, breathtaking views of the Golden Gate Bridge, City of San Francisco, Bay Bridge and Sausalito from nearly every room, Villa Belvedere, which is an ideal home to enjoy the upcoming America Cup Challenger Series and Final Races, was also the rare site for the 41st Marin Designer’s Showcase, and was transformed by 24 of the most well-known design firms, with each adopting a room to decorate in their own personal style. The initial bid will start at $25 million and given its original list price, this Bay area home is slated to become the most expensive home in San Francisco, a title which is currently held by a Broadway Street home, which too has been listed for sale, in mid 2012.

Villa Belvedere

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An Italian painter of the High Renaissance, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino “Raphael” was renowned for his work admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. And, together with Italian Renaissance legends like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Enormously productive, this Renaissance master who died back in 1520 at the age of 37, use to create drawings in his unusually large workshop. Now one of Raphael’s drawings, the 16th century “Head of an Apostle” which is a study for Raphael’s last painting “Transfiguration” which is on display at the Vatican Museum in Rome, has been sold for $47.9 million at Sotheby’s sale of ‘Old Master & British Paintings’ setting a record for a drawing in art history .

Raphael Drawing is the world’s most expensive sketch at $48 million

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One of London’s rising stars of the restaurant scene, the Head chef at John Salt London, Ben Spalding who has got an extensive kitchen employment and Stagiere experience in over 12 Michelin starred kitchens over 4 countries, will now be using some of the finest ingredients on earth to offer what is said to be the world’s most ultimate and expensive Christmas dinner. Costing $200,450, this four course festive meal for four will be just the ultimate culinary experience for the festive season. Known for his alternative approach to fine dining, Ben Spalding and his team on the Christmas Eve will create this memorable, one-off luxurious feast for diners at their home. Notably, Ben will be donating 80% of his fee to Cancer Research UK and Hospitality Action.

World’s most expensive Christmas dinner for a group of four will cost $200,450

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Though the animal welfare groups are strongly criticizing the creation of the Kopi Luwak, a coffee branded as among the rarest, luxurious and most expensive delicacy in the world, stating that Asian palm civets are being force-fed a debilitating diet of coffee berries which are naturally fermented through civet cat’s digestive system, but the popularity of the coffee among the connoisseurs are surging like anything. And, this is the reason that the world’s most expensive coffee Terra Nera ‘Kopi Luwak’, which is giving a new meaning to rich coffee and has spread from Indonesia to the US and Europe, will be now made exclusively available to pre-order at Harrods, at a price range starting from $225 to $10,910.

World’s most expensive Kopi Luwak Coffee now on sale at Harrods

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Invented back in 1795, the rare Sympathique clock which was a master carriage clock which rewinds and sets to time detachable pocket watch, actually helped cement name of Abraham-Louis Breguet as a noted French horologist. In his lifetime, this founder of the Swiss luxury watch company Bréguet was considered the leading watchmaker of his day with clientele including European nobility. Notably, the Sympathique clocks were variously commissioned by the Spanish and Russian crown, Napoleon and by Britain’s King George IV. Now, one of only about a dozen Sympathiques known to exist, the Duc d’Orléans Breguet Sympathique developed by horologist Abraham-Louis Breguet back in 1835 got sold for whopping $6.8 million, to become the world’s most expensive clock. Originally estimated auctioneer Sotheby’s to sell for $5 million, this particular clock was last auctioned back in year 1999 by the Time Museum in Rockford, Illinois, U.S., for a record price of $5,777,500.

French clock by Abraham-Louis Bréguet is the world’s most expensive clock at $6.8M

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