CaseMate Handcrafted Gold & Diamond iPhone Case – A Lesson in iVulgarity

Regular readers will know that, in the main, we have never particularly warmed to ‘blinged-out’ gadgets or jewel encrusted gadget accessories (and that’s putting it mildly) and, to be brutally honest, we see no reason as to why we should go making any exceptions as far as this Handcrafted Gold & Diamond iPhone Case from CaseMate is concerned.

Of course it ultimately boils down to question of taste, and, as far as it goes, we can only offer our opinions of this particularly gaudy Apple iPhone case – though you may, of course, think it’s the best thing since sliced bread – but we think its just about the most vulgar accessory we’ve ever come across (and we’ve come across some especially vulgar items in our ceaseless toil to bring you content here on TFTS).

This embodiment of what we’ll subsequently term as ‘iVulgarity’ consists of an 18K gold case featuring no less than 42 hand mounted diamonds (totalling 3.2 carats) and, thankfully, it’s a strictly limited edition so the chances of us ever seeing it in the flesh, so to speak, is fairly remote.

It’s hardly as if we needed yet more evidence that items that so patently strive for that ‘blinged-out’ look invariably loose any sense of style or desirability but, just in case we hadn’t laboured our perspective on the matter enough, we present you with what is undoubtedly our closing argument.

Our apologies to any of you who lust over such objects, but, the way we see it is that the only value we could place on this hideous monstrosity of a case is purely monetary – to the tune of some $20,000 – though that’s not to undermine the craftsmanship involved.

[Via BornRich]

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