Over-The-Top Gifts
Over-The-Top Gifts
For the golf guy, Japanese jeweler Nagahor created this diamond-studded platinum golf ball and putter, shown in Tokyo in November. The Platinum 900 golf putter head is studded with 22.35 carats of white and pink diamonds, while the Platinum 900 ball has 25.13 carats of diamonds. Price upon request. Your problem if you dunk it in the pond.
Over-The-Top Gifts
This perfume bottle is set with a five-carat brilliant cut diamond in a solid gold collar, and is priced at about $230,000 at the Roja Dove Haute Parfumerie inside Harrods, the ritzy London department store. The bottle contains 500ml of Clive Christian's No.1 Imperial Majesty perfume. And it had better smell good.
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If you book Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel's $25,000 Haute Holiday Package, you'll get all 25 rooms on the 14th floor, a wine tasting for 50 of your best friends presided over by a sommelier, a crystal bowl of M&Ms and a personal butler to pick out the brown ones. Move that offer to Paris and it's a done deal.
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This multi-stone necklace with dangling goodies is part of the Blue Book Collection, introduced in Beverly Hills on Nov. 10, 2007.
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Just in time for holiday shopping sprees, the Lamborghini company opened its Lamborghini Calabasas dealership in Los Angeles. Actress Hayden Panettiere arrived in one of its cars for the opening party on Nov. 14, 2007. Cost: about $250,000 to $400,000 depending on the model.
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Pampered pooches might pine for this dog collar set with 14.46 carats of diamonds and a little solid gold bone ornament. Designed by jeweler Stephen Webster, it costs about $1 million at Harrods department store in London.
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You know they're not selling Mickey Mouse watches when they hire Bollywood super-star Aishwarya Rai to show them off. Rai poses wearing a creation by fashion designer Tarun Tahiliani at the launch of Swiss manufacturer Longines' bridal collection of watches in New Delhi, India, on Dec. 5, 2007. The collection is priced beginning at about $2,564.
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Wretched excess is clearly a matter of personal taste. Ida the polar bear is wearing the container that held her holiday gift of peanut butter, trout, and whipped cream at New York City's Central Park Zoo on Dec. 8, 2007. Ida and other residents of three New York zoos are receiving presents from the staff every weekend in December.