Deck the halls with platinum presents
Source: Stuff.co.nz ()
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WISH LIST: For the executive who has everything, this $390,000 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti might make the perfect gift. If not, there are plenty of other options for when money is no object.
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SANTA'S delivery rounds would be troublesome in a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, with a fraction of a sleigh's boot space, but as a top-end Christmas gift for the person who has everything, it might just work.
GT Contintental's Barry Williams says the $390,000 V12 Italian car would make a very special Christmas present. "It is the sort of present you'd probably buy for yourself."
Finding something extra special for those accustomed to quality is hard, but dotted about Wellington there are fillers for the luxury Christmas stocking.
If private African gameparks, Dubai shopping and Bedouin desert luxury are Santa's idea of a good time, flying Emirates' first class suites to Sabi Sabi Earth Lodge in South Africa for the Christmas break is a great way to blow about $40,000.
Staying at luxury resorts Al Mahar and Burj Al Arab in Dubai on the way, you'll not have to lift a finger, with personal butlers and helicopter transfers to make life expensively easy.
"It is totally over the top," House of Travel luxury specialist Erica Banks says.
If terrestrial fun is too lowbrow, how about a $200,000 212 hour suborbital experience with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tours? A weightless $1000 a minute, not counting the three-day training regime.
Slightly more economical, Partridge Jewellers' Patek Philippe "Grand Complication" platinum wristwatch, with a price tag of $155,000, works out at 0.32 cents per minute, since it is guaranteed to keep exact time till the year 2100. And it will fit in a stocking.
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