Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Most Expensive Car in the World : McLaren F1

If your passion for performance and luxury autos cannot be stopped, and your McLaren F1 is becoming a bore with the rest of your exotic cars, it might be time to check out the long awaited Veyron from Bugatti. At around $1.25 million, t iis the most expensive car ever made.


This is not your typical luxury car. How about a W-16 (essentially two narrow-angle V-8s sharing a crankshaft) with four turbochargers generating 1001 hp, throw in all-wheel drive and you’ve got a seriously fast car.

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 hits 60 mph in 2.5 secs., does the quarter-mile in 10.5 secs. and reaches its top speed of 252 mph in just 55 secs. After a long absence from the market Bugatti (with a little help from parent company Volkswagen) has reclaimed its title as the ultimate performance car and reigns supreme as the world’s most expensive car in production.

Most Expensive Magazine in world :Wilmott magazine

How much would you be willing to fork over for a subscription to a magazine about quantitative finances? Forget the ten to twenty dollars you’d pay for a subscription to Maxim, Cosmo or Rolling Stone. Quantitative analysts who want to keep up to date in their chosen profession may need to pay up to nearly $700 for a bimonthly subscription to the most magazine expensive magazine in the world.
Published out of the UK, Wilmott magazine offers information about the most recent research, innovative financial models, reviews and in-depth analysis. Of course, you may need a PhD in mathematical finances to understand any of it. Each issue is an eleven inch square, giving you the feeling that you’re holding the teacher’s copy of a textbook, with all the answers in the extended margins.

Individual subscribers pay only $325 for a year-long subscription while institutions pay $650. Subscribers to the world’s most expensive magazine are also inducted into the Wilmott Book Club, giving them discounts on many quantitative finance and popular science books.

Most Expensive Guitar in the World

Most Expensive Guitar in the World

hey its just in n $2.7 million USD...???


“Blackie”, Eric Clapton’s favorite mid-career modified Strat has been surpassed in value and is no longer the most expensive guitar ever, despite that it was bought for $950,000 USD in 2004 by a guitar archaeologist.
The latest most expensive electric guitar in the world dethroned its predecessor at an auction in Doha, Qatar on November 16th, 2005. The Strat was signed by several rock musicians to benefit a tsunami charity, ‘Reach out to Asia’. It was bought one year ago by Qatar’s royal family for a million dollars and donated back to the Asia Program, bringing in $2.7 million USD at the more recent auction, whose attendees included Former President Bill Clinton. Technically, the guitar has generated a total of $3.7 million USD, making it the most expensive guitar yet.

Signees of this expensive electric guitar included Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus & Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard, and Bryan Adams, the coordinator of the project.

most expensive things


lets start with shoes..


Most expensive shoes: 1 million pounds



Would you feel like a princess or what when you wear something worth 1m pounds? The most expensive shoes in the world were on sale at Harrods in London. After a photo-call for the press, the shoes were locked away in a bullet-proof case where they will be guarded round-the-clock. The shoes, inspired by the ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, were woven from platinum thread and set with 642 rubies. They were designed by Stuart Weitzman.

Most expensive hair cut: 1,925 pounds


London stylist Lee Stafford (above) gives it.
You get what he calls a "couture cut" — but you have to travel to his house.
Of course, you'll get champagne, hors d'oeuvres and a follow-up trim as part of your package, so actually it's quite reasonable.
Isn't it

Most expensive house: $2 billion home


The 27-storey skyscraper being built in Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in India, could be the world's largest and costliest home with a price-tag nearing two billion dollar, according to Forbes magazine

Most expensive tea bag: 7,500 pounds


To celebrate PG Tips 75th birthday, Boodles jewelers produced this tea bag. It took three months to make and has been hand-crafted using 280 diamonds. Pete Harbour, spokesman for PG Tips has been quoted: "As it's our 75th birthday, we wanted to do something special to remind people just how much they love the great British cup of tea."

Most expensive jeans: Over $ 4,000



They wanted to be "the Mercedes-Benz, the Maybach of the denim industry". And APO jeans have done just that with a pair costing as much as $ 4,000 or more. They offer mens and ladies jeans with Silver Buttons and Rivets at $1,000, 14k White or Yellow Gold Button and Rivets at $1,500, Platinum Button and Rivets at $3,250, and the Diamond Button and Rivets start at $4,000. All Jeans will come with Authenticity Number as well as an Appraisal Sheet from a top Jeweler in the NY diamond district. Of course, you could buy the economy version: they run only $1,000 a pair. APO jeans are constructed from denim woven in India that costs $40 a yard, compared with the $2- to $3-per-yard cost of materials for most designer denim. Buttons and rivets are made with precious metals or, if a customer is willing to shell out $4,000 or more, up to a dozen white diamonds on the main button.


Most expensive watch : $150,000 : Zadora Timepieces

Manufacturer: Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof

The latest offering by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof is a bee of oxidised palladium and micro pave. The bee is adorned with black and canary yellow diamonds, pear-shaped emerald eyes with a baroque south sea pearl in its mouth.

Most expensive phone: GoldVish ‘Le Million’ Piece Unique : $1.3 million


Guinness World Records certified GoldVish SA’s ‘Le Million’ Piece Unique on January 29th, 2008. The Geneva-based luxury communications company’s expensive mobile phone was designed by Emmanuel Gueit as an addition to the Illusion Collection. The phone is made of 18k white gold and set with 20 carats of VVS1 (only microscopically flawed) diamonds. The phone also features Bluetooth, 2 GB of storage, FM radio, a digital camera and MP3 playback.
The Guinness-backed world’s most expensive cell phone is available only by special order.

Most expensive nail polish: $250:Platinum power

But if you don’t have the time or patience for a manicure, you can still have hands that scream ‘I’m worth a million bucks’. Or at least, $250 .The 'I Do' polish is a sheer nail polish that has platinum dust in it.
However, the first bottle of the series was displayed in special bottle made with a platinum top and base that is valued at $55,000

world’s most expensive perfume: $50,000 : Parfum VI

The world’s most expensive perfume is a creation by famous British perfumer Arthur Burnham who has created a bottle with platinum, 24 carat gold, rubies and diamonds all over it! It is called ‘Parfum VI’ and believe it or not, Rolls-Royce designed and built the box. You can’t
expect much change from £50,000.

Rumour has it that only 173 are being made and Michael Jackson has ordered two and Mike Tyson three – I thought they were skint!!!

Most expensive tie:$250,000.00 USD

When fully dressed Salman Khan paraded on a red ramp displaying the most expensive tie in the world, the picture was splashed all over the globe. The tie, studded with 261 diamonds of 77 carat each and made of pure silk with 150 grams of gold, is priced at a whopping Rs 1 crore. It is designed by Satya Paul and the Suashish Diamond group.

Most expensive pen: $265,000

Swiss company Caran d'Ache made 'La Modernista Diamonds' a pen that was sold in Harrods, London, for $265,000. Created in memory of architect Antonio Gaudi, the rhodium-coated solid silver pen has an 18-karat gold pen point and is pave-set with 5,072 diamonds and 96 half-cut rubies.

Most expensive truffle: 28,000 pounds for 1.88 lbs


An expensive little Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge, Zafferano bought the most expensive truffle in the world. For how much? Just take a deep breath! Zefferano paid 28,000 for just 1.88 lbs of Italian white truffle during a charity auction in Tuscany.

Top Paintings of Leonardo Da Vinci

The great Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15 in year of 1452,and this multidimensional man served the world till May 2, 1519 as a mathematician, scientist, inventor, engineer, painter, anatomist, sculptor, musician, architect, and writer.

Ginevra de' Benci.



This painting is made by Leonardo in 1474 on the wood by oil paints, it's size is 38.2 x 36.7 cm. At present time it is in The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Mona Lisa.

This is Leonardo's most famous painting, he had paint this historical painting in 1503-1507 with Oil paint on poplar, it's size is 77 × 53 cm. At present time is in The Musée du Louvre, Paris.


The Adoration of the Magi.


This painting is made by him in 1481-82, he used Yellow ochre and brown ink on panel, its size is 246 x 243 cm.It is now in The Uffizi, Florence.

Lady with an Ermine.

This is Leonardo's oter famous painting painted by him in 1483-90 by Oil on wood, Its size is 53.4 x 39.3 cm. It is now in the Czartoryski Museum, Cracow.

Madonna Litta.

Created by Leonardo in 1490-91 by Tempera on canvas. Its size is 42 x 33 cm. It is now in The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

The Last Supper.

This painting is created in 1498 by Leonardo. Its size is 460 x 880 cm. It is now in The Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Refectory), Milan.

The Virgin of the Rocks.

This is painted by Vinci in 1503-06 by Oil on wood. Its size is 189.5 x 120 cm. It is now increasing the value of The National Gallery, London.

Hitler's globe fetches 50,000$

Hitler's globe fetches 50,000$...

A globe that once belonged to Adolf Hitler has sold at auction in San Francisco for £50,000 - more than five times its estimate.

An American soldier found the globe among the ruins of Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" in the Bavarian Alps in May 1945.

John Barsamian took it home and kept it for more than 60 years - along with all the military paperwork that allowed him to take the globe to the U.S.

Sold: Ex-U.S. soldier John Barsamian shows off Hitler's globe

Greg Martin, proprietor of the auction house that handled the sale and had estimated the item at £10,000, said: "This is probably the most airtight documentation I've run across in some time.

pictures of the guy there at the time, standing in the ruins holding the globe like a newborn baby.

Eagle's Nest: Hitler studies a map at his retreat in the Bavarian Alps

"The guy is a meticulous record keeper."

The 91-year-old was at the sale yesterday with his son Barry when San Francisco entrepreneur Bob Pritikin placed the winning bid.

Double gold eagle


The 'double gold eagle', made in 1933 but was never circulated.

The US government changed their minds and ordered all the old coins returned - all except
three.



Auctioned in New York for $7,600,000

Value: 20.00 U.S. dollars

Mass: 33.431 g

Diameter: 34.1 mm (1.34252 in)

Thickness: 2.0 mm (0.07874 in)

Edge: milled/reeded

Composition: 90% Gold, 10% Copper

Years of minting: 1933 Catalog


design: blade eagle in flight , baked by glory with motto

designer: Augustus saint-gaudens

design date : 1907


The 1933 double eagle (United States 20-dollar gold coin) currently holds the record for highest price paid at auction for a single U.S. coin when it was purchased for US$7.59 million. 445,500 specimens of this Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle were minted in 1933, the last year of production for the Double Eagle, but no specimens ever officially circulated and nearly all were melted down, due to the discontinuance of the domestic gold standard in 1933.