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You might be proud of your millions in the bank, but there are a handful of things that are still beyond your reach - like T-Rex thigh bone casing on an iPad, a 52- carat diamond dog collar and a strawberry dessert that comes garnished with matching pink diamonds, says Manavi Kapur.
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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Hermes Birkin
Diamond Clutch
It could hold your money in style, but a million dollars would not be enough to put it in your grasp.
With over 2,000 diamonds, the platinum-coloured purse comes from Japanese designer Ginza Tanaka, and its versatile design allows its owner to use the diamond string as a necklace and the diamond-cluster buckle separately as a brooch.
Price: $1.9 million
Available at: Private auctions
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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Isabellas Islay
The Original
Have money, will swig... not really, unless you have more than a million dollars if it is Isabella’s Islay whiskey.
The single malt retails in a decanter encrusted with diamonds, with red rubies spelling out its name.
The decanter is made of English white crystal, coated with white gold and then covered with 8,000 diamonds.
Price: $6.2 million
Available at: www.isabellasislay.com
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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iLove Dog Diamonds
Amour, Amour dog collar
And you thought you had given your pooch every luxury possible. Well, here’s something for you to chew on - a diamond-studded dog collar from i Love Dog Diamonds.
With three large diamonds of 52 carats, this New York-based company’s creation has been dubbed the ‘Bugatti of dog collars’.
Price: $3.2 million
Available at: www.ilovedogsdiamonds.com
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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Chopard
Diamond watch
Is it a watch? Is it a piece of jewellery? Is it beyond your dream?
Pegged as the worlds most expensive time-piece, its dial lies forlorn among three heart-shaped diamonds in pink, blue and white - and a multitude of others envelope the entire watch.
The diamonds weigh a formidable 201 carat. Time to check your bank balance?
Price: $25 million
Available at: www.chopard.com
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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Arnaud’s Wine and Strawberries
Sorry, but a mere million will not even get you anywhere close to this dessert. For, these strawberries soaked in a $25,000 wine takes perfection to another level.
At Arnauds in New Orleans, United States, this strawberry and whipped cream dessert comes with a 7.09-carat pink diamond ring from MS Rau Antique. The colours are matched. Now match the price.
Price: $3.95 million
Available at: Arnauds Restaurant, New Orleans
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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Stuart Weitzman
Ruby stilettos
Celebrities wear them, well, because they pay over a million dollars for these redcarpet eyecatchers.
These stilletos from the American designer come studded with almost 640 round rubies, with a red satin sole, all of which is said to be inspired ironically by the down- to- earth red shoes of Dorothy in The Wizard ofOz.
Price: $1.6 million
Available at: On special order www.stuartweitzman.com
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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Aurora
Diamond pen
Some consolation here for you. Add a bit to your budget and take home this beauty created by Italian pen-manufacturer Aurora.
Grip on to the 30 carats worth of diamonds and sign the cheque with its 18- carat solid- gold nib.
Price: $1.3 million
Available at: On special order at www. aurorapen. it
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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iPad 2
Gold History Edition
Here’s a whopper - a melding of the modern and the ancient.
The 53 diamonds aside, this historic iPad 2 has a frame embellished with a 75 million-year-old rock from Canada and shavings from a the thigh bone of a 65 million-year- old Tyrannosaurus rex - all set in 24-carat gold.
Price: 5 million pounds (about $8.3 million)
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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Canary
Diamond cufflinks
Ignore this if your budget is under $4 million. Mounted on 18-carat white and yellow gold, these cufflinks have two yellow diamonds of about 21 carats, framed by baguette-cut white diamonds and with invisible princesscut diamonds on the back.
This tuxedo accessory from Jacob and Co makes diamonds a man’s best friend too.
Price: $4.2 million
Available at: www.jacobandco.com
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Even $1 million can't buy you these items
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Patek Phillippe
Pocket watch
Breaking records when it was auctioned in 1999, this 18-carat gold watch was created for the American banker, Henry Graves.
With as many as 24 complications and 900 parts, the watch took almost 4 years to be created.
Price: $11 million
Available at: Private auctions
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