1. The Most Expensive Car
The most expensive commercially available car is the Bugatti Veyron with the hefty price tag of $1.25 million USD. With all-wheel drive, a W-16 engine with 4 turbochargers, the Veyron clocks in at 1001 hp, hits 60 mph in 2.5 seconds and tops out at 253 mph in just 55 seconds. As such it’s not only the most expensive car in the world, but the fastest and most powerful too. Since it’s also 100% street legal you can also use it to go pick up your groceries. Though, due to the Veyrons excessive consumption of fuel, you’ll probably spend more on getting there than you will on anything else.
2. The Most Expensive Pen
It looks like something you’d buy your aunt Jemima for Christmas, from the “Everything Else” category of e-Bay. Despite its strange appearance, the “Limited Edition Mystery Masterpiece” is actually worth a staggering $730,000 USD.
It was a joint creation between the Montblanc and Van Cleef & Arpels companies to celebrate their credentials in 2006, designed to show their expertise and three version exist; one set with Rubies, one set with Sapphires and one set with Emeralds. Each pen contains 20 carats of the gemstone of choice as well as no less than 840 diamonds!
3. The Most Expensive Watch
The Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin marked its 250th anniversary in 2005 with the “Tour de l’Ile, Vacheron Constantin” which weighs in with a price tag of $1.5 mil USD.
A limited edition, only 7 were ever made, it’s complicated double face shows horological complications and astronomical indications composing a list of sixteen different points including a minute repeater, sunset time, perpetual calendar, second time zone, a tourbillon device, the equation of time and the representation of the night sky.
4. The Most Expensive Chess Board
The Royal Diamond Chess is an exsquisite chess board designed by Charles Hollander made in 14 carat white gold and set with an astounding 9900 black and white diamonds. It was crafted by 30 artisans who spent more than 4500 hours completing it.
Several more astounding pictures are available on the website (www.charleshollandercollection.com) and are worth checking out.
5. The Most Expensive Domain Name
Business.com was resold in 1999 for $7.5 million USD and had a place in the Guinness Book of World Records until it was dethroned on January 19, 2006. At that point the three letter domain Sex.com took its place when it sold to Boston based company Escom LLC for $12 million USD (other sources report it was as much as $16 million). The former owner stated that he wanted out of the adult entertainment business and as such decided to sell it.
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I think it is worth noting the time between records. Domains began in 1994, it took five year to hit the first high. It took seven years to hit the next. Should we expect another high in about 2015?
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