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CBlackberry Amosu Curve

Synonymous to most expensive accesories, Amosu has once again lived up to its reputation and rolled out the world’s most expensive Blackberry. Though their previous bespoken Blackberry Pearl Limited Diamond Edition suported a heavy price tag of $90,000, this latest diamond encrusted Blackberry grabs the honor of being the most expensive till date

The Latest Blackberry by Amosu is made of out 18 carat yellow gold and is studded and bejeweled with 4.459 brilliant cut diamonds with a net weight of 28.43 carats. It is the most expensive Blackberry till date with a stunning price tag of £125,000 ($200,000).

Only 3 such exclusive Blackberry will ever be made and the price at which it comes; the buyer can personalize the Berry with his/her name or company’s logo. It also comes with a 24 hour global concierge service focused on ‘accessing the inaccessible’.

While the masses wonder when these expensive Blackberry will fetch a price, to their surprise one of the three pieces have already been sold to a buyer from Middle East.

Here you are the technical data (maybe you decide to buy):

Front & Back Diamonds: 4459 Diamonds
18 Carat gold: Approx 62gsm
Cut: Brilliant cut
Colour: F-G
Clarity: VS1
Carat: Approx 28.42

But, best of all, YOU CAN CUSTOMIZE THE BATTERY COVER!! (at an extra cost, I bet)

You can find Amosu dealers in:

Hong Kong
Monaco
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom

VIA: AMOSU

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Maddoff's chained yacht

Bull's chained propellors of Bernard Madoff

As said yesterday, Bernard Madoff’s yacht has been chained at France. The yacht, a 27 m Leopard from Arno Shipyard, is registered in George Town and is currently lying in Antibes near a pristine Sunseeker. Italian design, freench mooring, George Town flag, american owner. Cosmopolitan at least.
The specifications of the yacht are

Length overall: 27 meters
Beam: 6,05
Engines: 2 x MTU 16V 2000 M92
Max Speed: 40 Knots

For more info and specs visit Cantieri Navale Arno
Pictures via Monaco Eye

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday called for tighter regulation of Antarctic tourism as delegates from 47 countries began a review conference of the now 50-year-old Antarctic Treaty.

Antarctic tourism, principally on cruise ships, has increased nearly ten-fold in the past 15 years and there is broad concern about tourism-related oil spills and damage to the delicate habitat of Antarctic penguins and other wildlife.

Giving the keynote address to a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty, which preserved that land and ice shelves of the southern polar region for peaceful purposes, Secretary Clinton said strengthened environmental regulation is especially important as Antarctic tourism grows.

Ancartic tourism

“The United States is concerned about the safety of the tourists and the suitability of the ships that make the journey south. We have submitted a resolution that would place limits on landings from ships that carry large numbers of tourists,” she said. “We have also proposed new requirements for life boats on tourist ships to make sure they can keep passengers alive until rescue comes. And we urge greater international cooperation to prevent discharges from these ships that will further degrade the environment around Antarctica,” she noted.

Antarctic Sunset

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Another of Bernard Madoff’s trophy assets has been seized, this time in the south of France.

French authorities on the Cote d’Azur have chained up his yacht “Bull” at a marina in the exclusive Mediterranean enclave of Cap d’Antibes, between Cannes and Nice.

Bailiffs threw a heavy chain around the boat’s propeller on Friday after a court granted the reqest by French investment firm Meeschaert, one of the many former investors in one of Madoff’s funds that is now suing to get some of its clients’ money back.

The yacht is valued at $7 million.

In a statement Sunday, Meeschaert chairman Cedric Meeschaert said the firm “decided to act fast, so that the boat wouldn’t leave French waters.”

A warning posted by the bailiffs on the boat reads: “Important: Do not turn on the motors, considering that the propellers are chained.”

The chained yacht of Bernard Madoff

It cautions that “major judicial problems” will result if anyone attempts to remove the boat.

Last week a Palm Beach mansion owned by Madoff and two of his yachts were seized in the United States.

Madoff, 70, is in jail in New York awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to swindling billions from investors in what could be the biggest scam in Wall Street history. He faces up to 150 years behind bars.

Prosecutors in the United States are seizing as much as they can of Madoff’s personal fortune, and have begun demanding millions of dollars in payments from his relatives. Roughly 6,700 people have filed claims for a share of whatever is recovered.

The bull will no longer navigate with Madoff

Thousands more — some who lost in excess of $1 million — are expected to come forward.

Via: NPR

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A 4-year-old boy has won the use of an uninhabited tropical island, with white sand beaches and clear turquoise waters, in a Taiwan lottery aimed at boosting spending during an economic downturn.

Port of Soller, Majorca

Officials said Yeh Chien-wei, who won the prize at Thursday’s draw, will get exclusive rights to the tiny plot in the Taiwan Strait from May through September.

Penghu County, an offshore archipelago, will provide food, drinks, water and electricity to the boy. He has been quoted in local media saying he wants to play in the sea.

“Penghu has a lot of islands, and that one has water and electricity, so someone can really enjoy it,” said county economic promotion official Lu Yan-chang, explaining why use of the island, which also has a cabin, was offered as a prize.

Counties elsewhere in Taiwan have offered cars, houses and other prizes to encourage locals to spend consumer vouchers worth T$3,600 ($103) that the government gave to every citizen in January to encourage spending to help boost the sagging economy.

Penghu, which comprises 64 islands, is known for its beautiful beaches and water sports.

According to the terms of the prize, the boy and up to seven family members can visit the island five times, for trips that last a maximum of three days.

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The MSC Fantasy, the biggest cruise ship of the Mediterranean,  broke her ropes due to strong winds while the passengers where boarding. This caused all the passengers on the gangway to fall into the sea. Four of them were sent to hospital with hypotermia symptoms.

MSC Fantasy

The CEO of the company, Emiliano González, was traveling in the cruise as this was the inaugural travel of the vessel. The MSC Fantasy is the second biggest cruise ship that stops in Palma de Mallorca, only after Queen Mary, and the biggest Mediterranean cruise ship.

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M/Y Eclipse Eclipse is under construction by ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany. The construction is taking place on a dock hidden from public view and there are still no definitive statements about size as there is a ‘race against the meters’ betwwen some megayacht owners. It is said that there is another megayacht project awaiting to rise its size when Eclipse’s is known. 

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The yacht is expected to be delivered to Roman Abramovich in 2010 and will be not less than 160 meters, with all kind of eccentricities and some known features.

Eclipse will have at least three helicopter pads, several hot tubs, two pools, three launch boats, and a private submarine. 

But the most ‘strange’ extras will be the radar designed specifically to warn of incoming rockets. There will also be armored protection around the wheelhouse and the billionaire’s cabin – along with bullet proof windows.

There will also be a surveillance system, with movement sensors and infra-red cameras all around the perimeter of the boat, and in case that someone do breach the security cordon and climb on board the beautiful superyacht, Abramovich, 41, and his girlfriend, Daria Zhukova, 26, a former model, can escape through secret corridors to a submarine that is launchable underwater and can dive away to 160ft in depth.

 

She is designed to be run with 50 crew, and the total cost of the project will round the €300 million.  When Eclipse launches, Mr. Abramovich will own more than 1,100 feet of yacht — the approximate length of the Queen Mary 2. Exact prices for his boats aren’t known, but industry experts estimate they range from about €20 million for his smallest to more than €300 million for Eclipse. Annual overhead for the boats is more than €15 million, industry experts say, and it costs him €90,000 just to fill up the tanks of his current largest boat, Pelorus.

 
This will be the 5th yacht owned by Mr. Abramovich, as well as ‘Pelorus’ (114 m), ‘Le Grand Bleu’ (112 m), ‘Ecstasea’ (85 m) and the tiny one, the ‘Susurro’, which is only 45 meters long.

ROMAN ABRAMOVICH: born on 24 October 1966 in Saratov, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian billionaire and the main owner of private investment company Millhouse LLC. According to Forbes magazine, as of 5 March 2008, he has had a net worth of US$23.5 billion. However, his wealth declined to $3 billion, so he hast lost most of his fortune due to the worldwide financial crisis.  In 2008 Forbes magazine ranked him as the fifteenth richest person in the world. He was also considered to be the second richest person currently living within the United Kingdom

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Mallorca Golf resorts

The german magazine ‘Golf Journal’ awarded Mallorca Island as best destination for tourism golf during the “Travel Awards 2009”. The award was given to Álvaro Middelmann, president of ‘Fomento del Turismo de Mallorca’ and also to the owner of Aucanada Golf, designed as best course in Mallorca.

The sport that is increasingly taking root in the islands is golf. Majorca is quite a paradise for golf lovers: the bid to attract winter tourists anxious to play the “green sport” has led to a proliferation of golf clubs; at present there is a total of twenty two top flight clubs.

Aucanada Golf Resort

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I have read on  SYNFO that the superyacht Maltese Falcon changes his home port from Georgetown in Cayman Islands to la Valetta, in Malta, so the new flag displayed will also be Malta’s flag.

Superyacht Maltese Falcon

It would seem that the driving force behind this flag change was the inability or unwillingness of the Cayman Islands to accept the new submarine installed on the yacht.

Superyacht Maltese Falcon by night

The Register will only accept and certify old steel pressure hulls submarines, and not the modern one made  of composites.

Let’s see how long it takes to Cayman authorities to say that they do cannot change their laws beacuse of the fussiness of a mega-yacht owner.

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Holiday home in Majorca

The holiday villa for rent in Mallorca

Majorca is set to be popular with holidaymakers in 2009 and it has also been revealed that the island is a favourite of some of the most famous faces in Hollywood.

Among them are film stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, Formula One racer Michael Schumacher, supermodel Claudia Schiffer and singer Annie Lennox – who have all had homes on the island.

And no wonder when there is such a selection of places of historical interest, outstanding natural beauty, art galleries, museums, theatres, clubs, shops and restaurants to visit.

In reflection of this, a list compiled by Skyscanner.net of the 50 most searched destinations by Britons planning to travel this year placed Palma in Majorca as seventh.

Co-founder of the search engine Barry Smith said: “This year, it’s all about making your money go as far as possible, which is why Spain remains an extremely popular destination for British travellers. It’s close, warm and still very good value. ”

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