By Roman | May 28, 2010 - 12:18 pm - Posted in Collectibles

T206 Honus WagnerIn the early days of baseball card collectors had to buy cigarettes such as Sweet Caporal and Piedmont to get their cards as tobacco companies were the only producers of baseball cards.

Honus Wagner was a great ball player and very much against smoking so when the 1909 set came out he used his clout to have his card pulled from the set.

Luckily Honus was a bit late and a few of the cards managed to make it into collectors hands and some 60 or so are known to exist today.

The world’s most expensive baseball card is the T206 Honus Wagner and on September 6, 2007 one of them sold to an anonymous collector for $2.8 million.

By Roman | - 11:45 am - Posted in Transportation

The EclipseWhat do you buy when you’re the richest man in Russia? Well, Roman Abramovich bought the Chelsea football club, then he went and bought the Eclipse, the world’s most expensive yacht.

The Eclipse took 4 years to build and was designed by Hermidas Atabeyki with naval designed by Bloom&Voss and Terence Disdale, and interior design by Terence Disdale and Greenline Yacht.

Here is a list of features of the Eclipse:

  • 167 meters or 557 feet long.
  • 6,000 square metres of living space.
  • 9 decks.
  • Elevator.
  • 11 guest cabins including 2 VIP suites.
  • Housing for up to 80 crew members.
  • 2 helicopter landing pads.
  • 2 swimming pools, one of which is the world’s largest onboard swimming pool.
  • A fitness studio, hairdresser, sauna, steambath and whirlpool.
  • A small theater, library, restaurant, and small private garden on the deck.
  • A submarine.
  • An anti rocket systems for preventing terrorist attacks and is fully bullet-proof.
  • 20 jet-skis stored inside the ship.

To run the yacht, one day at sea costs €80,000 or $98,640.00, but that’s nothing compared to the salty €500 million or $616.5  million USD that Roman Abramovich paid for the Eclipse.

By Roman | May 27, 2010 - 1:04 pm - Posted in Cosmetics

KissKiss Gold and DiamondsTired of kissing your significant other and tasting nothing but cheap lipstick?

We have the solution for you, it’s called KissKiss Gold and Diamonds and it’s the world’s most expensive lipstick.

The lipstick case itself was created by Echaudemaison and designer Herve Van Der Straeten and is made from 110 grams of 18 carat gold and 199 diamonds. You can also have the case engraved with a name or message of your choosing.

The lipstick case comes with it’s own case, a black lacquered wooden case as well as a lip brush and black suede pouch and the lipstick itself comes in 15 customizable shades.

Now we can’t promise that kissing someone wearing KissKiss Gold and Diamonds lipstick will taste any better, but we are pretty sure that should you spend the sticky $62,000.00 you’ll be getting more kisses more often, at least for a little while.

By Roman | - 12:42 pm - Posted in Needless

Mervis Diamond’s iPad caseAs if it’s not bad enough that people are shelling out a lot of money for an over-sized iPod, some are shelling out even more for their iPad case.

For a fruity $19,999.99 on top of the cost of your iPad you can display the gizmo in the world’s most expensive iPad case, the Mervis Diamond’s iPad case.

The case itself is studded with 11.43 carats of diamonds hand-set in a micropavé styling.

So if you feel your new iPad is not shiny enough get in contact with Mervis Diamond Importers, they’ll surely help you spend your unwanted cash.

If you are a bit more practical, but still want a nice case then Louis Vuitton iPad cases might be the thing for you.

You can choose the brown leather that has the classic Louis Vuitton logo, if you want everyone to know that you deserve only the best or, you can choose the gunmetal gray color, which is a simple checkerboard pattern, either one will set you back less than the cost of your iPad, a measley $350.00 USD.

By Roman | - 11:58 am - Posted in Animals

Yangtze River Number 2Meet Yangtze River Number 2, the world’s most expensive dog.

A young woman, Ms. Wang, came across White Root, a black Tibetan Mastiff pup while visiting Yushu in China’s Qinghai province and immediately fell in love with it. Luckily for her she was a millionaire as purchasing the dog set her back 4 million yuan which works out to a doggone $585,500.00 USD.

When she brought the dog home they were met by a motorcade of 30 cars as well as countless onlookers but luckily by that time Ms. Wang had renamed the dog to Yangtze River Number 2, a name more fitting to a millionaire lifestyle.