‘World’s most expensive iPhone’ will cost you $15,000,000

It may not exactly be practical, but you’ll certainly stand out from a sea of black and white iPhones with a custom gold-and-diamond encrusted iPhone 5.

If you’ve got $15 million to spend on it, that is.

British designer Stuart Hughes, who has become known for his high-end after-market electronics, has developed what is likely the world’s most expensive iPhone. To buy it would run you £10,000,000, or about $15,650,000 CAD, but Hughes’ design isn’t for the general public to purchase.

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The iPhone 5 Black Diamond is a custom design for a Chinese businessman that Hughes only referred to as “Joe” in an interview with ABC News. Joe had purchased some of Hughes’ other expensive creations in the past, and wanted something that really stood out.

The phone is covered in 24 carat gold, and the logo and sides of the phone are adorned with 600 white flawless diamonds. But what bumps up the price of this phone so much is the home button. Joe had a 26 carat black diamond, and decided it would be a great feature for the device. The “flawless, black single deep cut diamond,” as per the item’s description, had been in Joe’s possession for a while, and Hughes’ design gave him the opportunity to finally get some use out of it. The phone also has a sapphire glass screen.

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One of Hughes’ previous creations, the iPhone 4S Elite Gold phone, formerly held the record for “most expensive iPhone” at £6,000,000. That mobile device had approximately 500 diamonds, with 53 diamonds on the Apple logo alone. It came inside a specially designed chest, made from solid platinum and Tyrannosaurus Rex bone, inlaid with opal, pietersite, charoite, rutile quartz and star sunstone.

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