These phones offer no extraordinary features except for a ridiculously high price and some jewels. Here is a list of 10 Most Expensive Phones In The World.
#10 Signature Cobra by Vertu- $360,000
Signature Cobra features 439 rubies, shaped in the form of a cobra with its eyes made out of emerald, fitted on its front. It was designed by French jewellery house Boucheron. Vertu plans to sell only eight pieces of this phone at a price tag of CNY 2.47 million each.
#9 Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot by Gresso – $1 Million
Designed by Gresso, a Swiss manufacturer of luxury mobile phones and accessories, Luxor Las Vegas costs around one million dollars. The back of this phone is made from 200-year old African Blackwood and its12-mm thin frame is made of 180 g of gold. Each key of this phone is a manually polished and laser etched sapphire.
#8 Diamond Crypto Smartphone by JSC Ancort – $1.3 Million
Diamond Crypto Smartphone was designed by Austrian jeweller Peter Aloisson and JSC Ancort. It is a Window CE based smartphone that offers a high level of encryption to provide secure protection of private information. The high price tag comes from the fact that its body is made of solid platinum and it is fitted with 50 diamonds out of which 10 are blue.
#7 Le Million by Goldvish – $1.3 Million
This 1.3 million dollars worth mobile phone was made by Goldvish, a Switzerland-based luxury mobile phone company. The phone was made out of 18-carat white gold and it featured almost 1,800 VSS-I grade diamonds. The company guaranteed a limited production of three pieces of this phone.
#6 iPhone 6 Call of Diamond by Amosu – $2 Million
Alexander Amosu created this custom iPhone for an anonymous customer and it took him around 2 months. There is a total of 6,127 VVS1 diamonds studded on its bezel and back, while one large 51 carat diamond is cut into the shape of the Apple logo. It was privately sold for around two million dollars.
#5 iPhone 3G King’s Button by Peter Aloisson – $2.5 Million
iPhone 3G King’s Button was created by Austria Jeweler, Peter Aloisson. It is made from solid 18-carat white gold, yellow gold and rose gold. The bezel features a white gold line decorated with a total of 138 diamonds. A beautiful 6.6 carat white diamond serves as the home button.
#4 iPhone 3GS Supreme Rose Edition by Stuart Hughes – $3.15 Million
This custom iPhone is made by luxury item designer, Stuart Hughes. The handmade platinum bezel of this phone is studded with 130 individual 0.75 flawless diamonds and 4 pink baguette diamonds. The back side is made of rose gold as well as the Apple logo that is studded with 53 diamonds. The home button is made from rose gold with a single cut 7.1 carat diamond settled in it.
#3 iPhone 4 Diamond Rose Edition by Stuart Hughes – $8 Million
With a price tag of $8 million, it stands on the third spot of our list of most expensive phones in the world. The bezel is studded with 500 individual Flawless diamonds.The rear side is made of rose gold and the logo, too made of rose gold, is studded 53 diamonds. The home button is made from platinum which holds a single cut 7.4-carat pink diamond that can be replaced with a rare 8-carat single cut Flawless diamond included with this phone.
#2 iPhone 4S Elite Gold Edition by Stuart Hughes – $9.4 Million
Stuart Hughes again took an iPhone and turned it into the second most expensive phone in the world. Elite Gold Edition is very similar to the Diamond Rose Edition, the difference being the former uses a higher version of iPhone, and the home button is made from gold instead of platinum and it holds a single cut 8.6-carat diamond, instead of a single cut 7.4-carat pink diamond, that can be replaced with a rare 7.4-carat single cut Flawless pink diamond included with this phone.
#1 iPhone 5 Black Diamond by Stuart Hughes – $15.3 Million
iPhone 5 Black Diamond, the most expensive phone in the world, was designed by Stuart Hughes for a Chinese businessman. It took him around 9 weeks to build this custom iPhone by hands. A 26-carat black diamond serves as the home button while the outside casing of the smartphone is made of 24-carat gold. The bezel and Apple logo are embellished with flawless diamonds.
