For $15m, you too can have this phone
But Stuart Hughes, a longtime designer of aftermarket electronics, has topped them all with a $15m (€11.4m) iPhone 5, believed to be the most expensive smartphone ever made.
The phone has a solid-gold chassis that Hughes crafted by hand. But the real cost comes from the most expensive home button in the world.
That home button is made of a single, deep-cut, 26-carat black diamond that is said to be worth $14.5m (€11m).
There are also 600 white, flawless diamonds located within the Apple logo on the back and on the edges.
The English designer and jeweller has made gold Apple products before but with this one, “it’s all about the rarity and value of the deep-cut, black diamond”, he told ABC News.
Hughes spent nine weeks creating the phone specifically for a Hong Kong businessman whom Hughes will only refer to as “Joe”.
Joe had owned the black diamond for a while and decided he wanted to place it on an iPhone after buying other, “cheaper” items from Hughes in the past.
However, Hughes isn’t worried that the world’s most expensive smartphone might soon become outdated when Apple puts out a new iPhone. He is confident other customers will want that next iPhone to be adorned with diamonds and gold, too.
“I have been commissioned to do all of the iPhones from when the 3G version first came out,” said Hughes.
