We have seen luxury phones encrusted with diamonds before, and some of them are worth more than $1 million. But a British designer named Stuart Hughes is now raising the bar with an
iPhone 5 that costs £10 million, or more than $15 million USD. The gimmick of this particular
Apple piece is that its home button is made of
a 26-carat black diamond. The marketing babble on the website is satisfyingly nutty: “Diamond is distinctive in the way it reflects light. It has a unique brilliance and also breaks the light up into spectral colours, which reflect within the stone as it is moved.” It is also pretty cool that a product description page for a £10 million device manages to misspell the word “chassis.”
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