Celsius X VI II phone.....£235,000!!

[Rodimus]

Yep that's right, £235,000 for a phone. Went to harrods yesterday in the watch area and saw this cool phone on display. I thought I would ask the price just to see if it 'may' enter my wishlist. The second he mentions £235k, I gave him that big buldging eyes WTF look and said thank you and walked away.


http://www.thecoolist.com/celsius-x-vi-ii-papillon...

[GG89]

Imagine dropping that on a night out!

[soad]

That's just insane.

[Plotloss]

Cheap.

Goldvish do phones over a bar.

[Justayellowbadge]

Plotloss said:

Goldvish do phones over a bar.

So does the pikey landlord in my local.


70 notes for an iphone.

Oh, you meant..

[Rodimus]

soad said:

That's just insane.

What's insane is the fact the phone is fully mechanical. Meaning, when someone calls you, you don't see their numbers digitally. You see blocks rotating to show you the number. On one site they mentioned it was as if you were waiting to look at destinations and flight updates on an airport flight board. Still doesn't make sense it would cost this much. There was another watch company called Ulysse Nardin hay made a phone that looks similar to that one above with a watch skeleton and top of that, is 50% powered by kinetic energy. Just like an automatic watch and that phone alone costs £20k.

[TotalControl]

So who makes the mechanism and phone board for them then?

[AndrewW-G]

Somewhere a PH mod, is struggling to work out if this thread should be moved to the Watch or Computers & Gadgets forum.

[JamesIIIII]

I was there last weekend and saw a watch for £750K The pen department has a few pens in there for £40k plus....for a pen!

[Rodimus]

TotalControl said:

So who makes the mechanism and phone board for them then?

Wish I had more info but even the company's YouTube commercial sucks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQzFriM-plU

I haven't seen any pics online of someone using the phone and no one has an in depth review of it. The closest any site has been to it was engadget and they had one pic of a dummy phone.

JamesIIIII said:

I was there last weekend and saw a watch for £750K The pen department has a few pens in there for £40k plus....for a pen!

£750k? Oooooooo I need to see that one thanks, I will check it out tomorrow. Rolex had a watch called ICE which I think was £330k. Pens I don't understand honestly, a BIC ballpoint pen is enough for me.

[cyberface]

AndrewW-G said:

Somewhere a PH mod, is struggling to work out if this thread should be moved to the Watch or Computers & Gadgets forum.

Should be in both. The device has a tourbillon, which is a mechanical watch complication and most certainly watch-specific. It's used in this phone purely to regulate the timekeeping function on the phone, so it's a timepiece mechanism.

Gadget? Most certainly. Watch? Yeah, I think some of us on the Watch forum would be very interested in how that 'movement' is able to power more than just the timekeeping function and provide enough power to run a modern GSM baseband CPU...

[TotalControl]

cyberface said:

AndrewW-G said:

Somewhere a PH mod, is struggling to work out if this thread should be moved to the Watch or Computers & Gadgets forum.

Should be in both. The device has a tourbillon, which is a mechanical watch complication and most certainly watch-specific. It's used in this phone purely to regulate the timekeeping function on the phone, so it's a timepiece mechanism.

Gadget? Most certainly. Watch? Yeah, I think some of us on the Watch forum would be very interested in how that 'movement' is able to power more than just the timekeeping function and provide enough power to run a modern GSM baseband CPU...

But which is it more of though Cyber? From what you have said, it's more of a watch then?

Genuinely intrigued as to how they sell these though.

[zollburgers]

TotalControl said:

Genuinely intrigued as to how they sell these though.

Someone approaches them and says words to the effect of "oy, you, gimme phone, now, me got money". The seller then says words to the effect of "alreet then, aye, ere you are" and the transaction is made.

[TotalControl]

zollburgers said:

TotalControl said:

Genuinely intrigued as to how they sell these though.

Someone approaches them and says words to the effect of "oy, you, gimme phone, now, me got money". The seller then says words to the effect of "alreet then, aye, ere you are" and the transaction is made.

Really? That simple? They must not even require marketing.

[ZesPak]

Rodimus said:

JamesIIIII said:

I was there last weekend and saw a watch for £750K The pen department has a few pens in there for £40k plus....for a pen!

£750k? Oooooooo I need to see that one thanks, I will check it out tomorrow. Rolex had a watch called ICE which I think was £330k. Pens I don't understand honestly, a BIC ballpoint pen is enough for me.

In fact, it's just as pointless as watches at those prices.
And I love my watches, but to say a 20k pen is incomprehensible but a 30k watch isn't is madness

edit: fixed quoting

Edited by ZesPak on Monday 4th October 09:37

[JamesIIIII]

i'll have a look to see if i can get a picture of the watch, it was a franck muller

edited for speeling

Edited by JamesIIIII on Monday 4th October 19:21

[paddyhasneeds]

If you have the money then fair enough, why not I suppose. However, I get pissed off at spending £50 on a phone and it being superseded the next week let alone £250k.

[Rodimus]

JamesIIIII said:

i'll have a look to see if i can get a picture of the watch, it was a franck muller

edited for speeling

Edited by JamesIIIII on Monday 4th October 19:21

Oh yeah franck mullers go up to 4 million usd. I love their crazy hour watch which is more affordable and the hours jump clockwise and the hour numbers are arranged differently. You probably saw an aetarnitas (googled the name to get the correct spelling). I won't be surprised if franck muller makes a phone too. ulyssee nardin has one out but is currently released in Russia and the middle east.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/26/ulysse-nardin-c...



This phone uses the kinetic system as most watches and although this review doesn't mention much about it, the movement actually keeps the phone running as a power reserve. This phone called chairman costs £15000 for the standard stainless steel and goes up to £75000 for the white gold. Yes, very pricey but who wouldn't want a phone that looks like that from the rear.

Edited by Rodimus on Tuesday 5th October 03:39

[RobDickinson]

Me!?!