The Ulysse Nardin Chairman sees the Swiss watchmaker Ulysse Nardin take its fine chronometer crafting, combine it with a luxury mobile phone and somehow come up with a mobile phone with a watch mechanism stuck on the back.
Wow. Do you think perhaps this phone may have been on the drawing board before the economy vanished around the U-bend?
Luxury phone merchant Mobiado has launched the 105GMT Gold – a phone so utterly at odds with both the economic climate and, well, taste that it almost deserves to outsell the iPhone.
Motorola has seen the future and it’s bling. Even today, as the credit crunch officially becomes a recession, there seems to be no end to the market for luxury mobiles. After all, those bankers still have bonuses to spend. But what shape should Motorola’s new Aura high-end handset take? I know, the designers said, let’s dust off the design for the old V70 and tart it up a bit. (Hint: the Aura’s the one on the left.)