Saturday, December 13, 2008

Vertu


Vertu's latest collaboration with Boucheron looks like it was run over before you got it but that's deliberate. The artistically rumpled Boucheron 150 cellphone is crafted from a single piece of solid gold. It's part of Boucheron's 150th anniversary which also included a line of bejeweled Vertu phones. The new gold phone will have 3G connectivity and come in a wooden presentation box. The phone reportedly takes 1,000 hours of shaping, 700 polishing hours, and 500 hours of building time to create. It's expected to cost around $30,000.