Most Expensive Cigar

Gurkha Black Dragon

Price: $1,150 each





Gurkha Cigars? Black Dragon cigars were introduced in 2006, according to cigar.com.

The cigars are hand-crafted in Honduras and come in a box made of carved

camel bone and brass. Gurkha Cigars produced only five chests of 100 cigars,

each chest priced at $115,000, and only one chest remains. A new and less

expensive version of the Black Dragon was released in 2007.

Most Expensive Champagne

Heidsieck Monopole Champagne 1907

Price: $35,000*

In 1997, a search team uncovered a ship that sank in the Baltic Sea containing

valuable cargo, including 2,000 bottles of Heidsieck Monopole Champagne.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow claimed 10 of the bottles and made them

available for sale in 2008. According to the hotel?s spokesperson,

Sergey Logvinov, the first bottle sold within the first month to a Russian collector.

A few bottles are still available for purchase.

*Converted from 880,000 rubles

Most Expensive Hotel Room

Royal Penthouse Suite, Hotel President Wilson in Geneva

Price: $65,000 per night

This palatial suite, which occupies an entire floor of the hotel and measures

18,083 square feet, has 10 rooms and seven bathrooms. It was renovated in

January 2009 to add a new private fitness area, according to a spokesperson.

Most Expensive Bicycle

Aurumania Gold Bike Crystal Edition

Price: $114,464*

Scandinavian design company Aurumania made only 10 of these

hand-crafted, 24-carat gold-plated bicycles. Each is decorated with

600 Swarovski crystals. According to Chief Executive Bo Franch-Mærkedahl,

this bike was originally conceived as a show piece but quickly attracted

interest from buyers. The firm, founded in September 2008, has sold five

units to buyers in the U.K., Dubai, Russia, Italy, and most recently, Australia.

He adds that four of the clients also bought a matching gold-plated wall rack.

*Price converted from ?80,000

Most Expensive Golf Club

Long-Nose Putter Stamped ?A.D.,? attributed to Andrew Dickson

Price: $181,000

An ?A.D.? stamp on this circa 18th century, long-nose putter is attributed

to Andrew Dickson, the oldest known clubmaker to mark his clubs.

He is said to have served as a caddy to the Duke of York as a young

boy, according to Sotheby?s. This item was estimated to sell for

$200,000 to $300,000 but fetched $181,000 in a Sotheby?s auction

in New York in 2007.

Most Expensive Wine

Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon 1992

Price: $500,000

This sale is left off many lists because the proceeds went to charity,

but Screaming Eagle?s $500,000, six-liter bottle of cab holds the top

spot for the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. It was purchased

at the Napa Valley Wine Auction in 2000 by Chase Bailey, a former

Cisco Systems executive, reported Time magazine.

Most Expensive Chess Set

Chess Set by Charles Hollander*

Price: $600,000

Jeweler Charles Hollander?s Royal Diamond Chess (shown in photo),

priced at half a million dollars, is often cited as the world?s most expensive,

but Hollander tells Bloomberg Businessweek that the first of his seven

chess sets, which made their debut about 10 years ago, quietly sold for

$600,000 just after launching. The set was studded with 320 carats of black

and white diamonds and two kilograms of 14 carat white gold. Hollander

says he presented the unnamed piece at the Basel Jewelry Show and sold

it within the first hour to a Russian collector. Hollander has made seven luxury

chess sets, all designed by Bernard Maquin, and has moved all but one.

Another set, called the Jewel Royale chess set, by U.K. jeweler Boodles,

was valued at $9.8 million but has not yet sold.

*No images of the set were taken before sale, according to Charles Hollander.

The image shown is of the Royal Diamond Chess .

Most Expensive Motorcycle

Dodge Tomahawk V10 Superbike

Price: $700,000

The Dodge Tomahawk, a 1,500-lb. motorcycle with four wheels, has a

Dodge Viper?s V10 engine and can go from zero to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds,

according to Edmunds.com. The top speed is estimated to be more than 300 mph.

The vehicle, which made its debut at the 2003 North American International

Auto Show in Detroit, was reportedly priced at $550,000, but a Dodge spokesperson

confirmed to Bloomberg Businessweek that two units were sold at an even higher $700,000.

Most Expensive Camera

Susse Freres daguerreotype camera

Price: $775,000

A daguerreotype camera designed by Frenchman Susse Freres that

dates back to 1839 sold at the WestLicht Auction in 2007 for ?576,000 ($775,000).

It was believed to be the oldest commercially manufactured camera in the world,

reported the Most Expensive Journal. Another daguerreotype camera will be

auctioned in May and is expected to fetch up to $950,000.

Most Expensive Speakers

Transmission Audio Ultimate System

Price: $2 million per pair

With a total of 12 units?four dipole subwoofers, two dipole mid-woofers,

four dipole medium-frequency and high-frequency ribbon panels, and two

dipole high-fidelity super ribbon panels?Transmission Audio?s Ultimate

speaker system is a hefty piece of equipment, spanning 37 feet and

weighing 5 metric tons. All units are made from aircraft aluminum and have

stands in polished red or black granite. The set was introduced in late 2009,

and so far two pairs have been preordered, says Bo Bengtsson, president of

Transmission Audio. None has yet been delivered, as the assembly time is

about six months.

Most Expensive Television

PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition by Stuart Hughes

Price: $2.3 million*

Swiss luxury television maker PrestigeHD asked Stuart Hughes of

Goldstriker International to design a spectacular piece for the company,

says Hughes. So he took a 55-inch PrestigeHD television and covered

it in 28 kilograms of 18-carat rose gold and 72 diamonds. Alligator skin

was hand sewn into the bezel. This limited edition TV, introduced just this

year, surpasses Hughes? £1 million television for PrestigeHD, which uses

22-carat yellow gold and 48 diamonds. PrestigeHD CEO Simon M. Troxler

says the company is close to closing its first contract for the Supreme

Rose Edition and ?we are very confident that the limited edition of only three

TVs will be sold out soon.?

*Price converted from £1.5 million

Most Expensive Guitar

Fender Stratocaster guitar

Price: $2.7 million

A group of the world?s renowned musicians signed this guitar, auctioned

in Qatar in 2005, to raise funds for tsunami victims, according to a press

release. Signatures include 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. It was bought by Qatar?s royal family

earlier that year, donated back to the charity, and sold again for $2.7 million.

Most Expensive Cell Phone

iPhone 3GS Supreme Rose by Stuart Hughes

Price: $2.97 million*

Stuart Hughes?who also designed the most expensive television?

made headlines in 2009 when he crafted a 22-carat gold iPhone

studded with 53 diamonds for an unnamed Australian businessman

for £1.92 million. More recently, he says, he was commissioned to

make an even pricier version of the phone in 18-carat rose gold with

hundreds of diamonds, including a single-cut, 7.1-carat diamond for

the main navigation button.

*Price converted from £1.93 million

Most Expensive Piano

Heintzman Crystal Piano

Price: $3.22 millio

A nine-foot piano made by Heintzman Piano in Beijing was recently

purchased at auction by a private bidder for a record $3.22 million,

according to a company release.

Most Expensive Domain Name

Insure.com

Price: $16 million

In 2009, California-based Internet marketing firm QuinStreet bought

insure.com for $16 million, setting a new record for the most expensive

domain name. It was previously held by ***.com, which sold in 2006 for

more than $12 million, reported the Guardian .

Most Expensive Ring

Chopard Blue Diamond Ring

Price: $16.26 million

The centerpiece of Chopard Blue Diamond Ring is a 9-carat blue

diamond (in photo) with diamond shoulders. The 18-carat white gold

band is paved with diamonds. It sold overseas in 2007 to a fancy colour

diamond collector, reportedly for $16,260,000, but a Chopard spokesperson

says the estimated value of the ring today is $18,561,310.

Most Expensive Car

1954-55 Mercedes-Benz W196

Price: $24 million

Think a brand-new $1.7 million Bugatti Veyron is expensive?

Try the Mercedes-Benz W196, which won the Grand Prix in 1954 and 1955,

and sold at auction in 1990 for a staggering $24 million. According to

the U.K.?s Times Online Times Online, Mercedes donated the car to

the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu in the 1980s, which later sold

it for £1.5million to finance a museum renovation. It was again sold in

1990 to a French industrialist for $24 million but changed hands once

more to a German industrialist for less than half that sum.

*The image shows a model of the W196.

Most Expensive Watch

Haute Joaillerie Watch from Chopard

Price: $25 million





Chopard?s colorful, glittery timepiece sold in early 2000 for a reported $25 million.

The watch has 201 carats of pink, blue, and white diamonds, including a

15-carat, heart-shaped pink diamond, a 12-carat, heart-shaped blue

diamond, and an 11-carat, heart-shaped white diamond. The hearts

spring open to expose the yellow diamond-studded watch face. The

bracelet has 163 carats of white and yellow pear-shaped diamonds.

Most Expensive Drawing

Raphael?s Head of a Muse

Price: $47.9 million





The most expensive work on paper was sold at auction in December 2009

by Christie?s London. Raphael?s Head of a Muse, a black chalk drawing on paper,

sold for $47,941,095, handily beating the estimate, which ranged from $19.7 million

to $26.3 million.

Most Expensive Sculpture

L?Homme qui marche I (Walking Man I), Alberto Giacometti (1961)

Price: $104.3 million

After only eight minutes of bidding at a Sotheby?s auction in London in

February, this life-size bronze sculpture sold for three times its asking price

to an anonymous telephone bidder, reported the Daily Telegraph. The work not

only set a record price for a Giacometti; it is also the most expensive piece

of art ever to sell at auction. The previous record was held by Picasso?s Boy

with a Pipe, a painting that sold for $104 million.

Most Expensive Painting

Number 5, 1948, Jackson Pollock (1948)

Price: $140 million

Billionaire record and film producer David Geffen reportedly sold the

4-ft. by 8-ft. painting to financier David Martínez in 2006, although neither

commented on the deal, according to an article in The New York Times.

Most Expensive Private Jet

Boeing 747-8 VIP

Price: $295 million*

This jet, which has 4,786 square feet of cabin space, is the newest member

of the 747 family and replaces the 747-400. Boeing has sold seven

747-8 VIPs since May 2006 and will start delivering them next year.

While the interior is intended to look less like a plane and more like home,

Boeing does not furnish the jets?customers must hire interior designers,

which can easily add millions of dollars in additional cost, says Boeing

spokesman Bernard Choi. He says the jet probably will not enter service

until after 2012, because the interior has to be put in.

*Price does not include the interior.

Most Expensive House

Antilla

Price: $1 billion

According to a February report by Property Magazine Property Magazine ,

the most expensive house in the world, named Antilla (in picture above at left),

is in downtown Mumbai, India, and will be the residence of Reliance

Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani. The 27-story, 570-foot-tall tower

has a helipad, a health club, and a six-floor garage that can hold 168 cars.

Each level has gardens. It will be serviced by a staff of 600 people.

Some reports list the price of the house at $2 billion. The architecture

and design firms working on this project, Perkins+Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates,

declined comment.

Most Expensive Yacht

Eclipse

Price: $1.2 billion