Archive for the 'luxurious' Category

Mega Yachts v Super Yachts

This page contains some of the top 100 mega yachts in the world and includes the year and the yacht was launched and the owner of the yacht. Ever wonder who owns the mega yachts of the world? Below is a listing, by size, of the top superyachts.
Eclipse Length 167meters (548ft) Year expected launched 2009 [...]

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Gang escapes with £40 million in ‘biggest UK jewellery heist’

An armed gang took a woman hostage as they stole £40 million worth of rings, necklaces and bracelets from an exclusive store in what is thought to be Britain’s biggest jewellery robbery. Two smartly dressed men arrived in a black taxi at Graff’s jewellers in Bond Street, Central London, last week and were buzzed through [...]

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Laurence Graff pays £2.5 million a record price for gemstone at auction

Geneva: A vivid blue 3.7 carat diamond ring, right, sold for just under $5 million (£2.5 million) at auction, becoming the priciest gemstone per carat, Sotheby’s said.
The oval-shaped stone – about the size of a pistachio shell – fetched $1.33 million per carat, edging out a similar blue diamond that sold last year in Hong [...]

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

A License Plate “1D” fetches £352,411 record price at auction

A Lebanese property developer living in England has paid £352,411 pounds (US$509,768) for license plate number “1D”, a new record in the world of collectible British license plates. At an auction held by the DVLA, the agency which regulates British vehicle registration, the highly-coveted plate sold for a total of 285,000 pounds, but fees and [...]

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

The World’s Five Longest Super Yachts

Yachts have captured the imagination of people the world over and nothing signals luxury more than the ultimate floating home. The term luxury yacht encompasses any privately owned vessel that is professionally crewed and was coined at the beginning of the 20th century when yachting for pleasure became a reality for many.
Classifying yachts into a [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

One £200 million super-yacht with three Monet paintings onboard

This $400 million super-yacht was built for a Russian oligarch, Andrey Melnichenko, 37, who is worth $9.2 billion and was ranked 172 on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people. There is a large master suite as well as six luxury cabins for up to 14 guests and enough room for 42 crew members. [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Ten facts on tiny principality of Liechtenstein

1. The Principality of Liechtenstein is one of only two countries in the world that are doubly landlocked — that is surrounded by other countries that are also landlocked — which means that its inhabitants have to cross at least two borders before reaching the coast. The other such country is [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Harrods by Appointment – Services only for the super Rich

Mohamed Al Fayed’s Knightsbridge store introduces a new ‘focus’ on personal service — to ramp up the top-end shopping experience Here’s a quick question for well-heeled brides-to-be and their harried mothers. What do you do if in order to accommodate all your friends and respect your cultural and family traditions you need to hold wedding [...]

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Argentina win the Cartier Day at Guards Polo Club for the Coronation Cup

It has been 9 years since Argentina last came to England to play on Cartier Day at Guards Polo Club for the Coronation Cup, and it was an extremely warm welcome that waited for them on this, the 25th Anniversary of Cartier’s sponsorship of this huge polo spectacle. On average, 25,000 people flock to Guards to [...]

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Sheikh Who Backed Barclays Gets Another Shot With Qatar’s Money

On a March morning in Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City on the Persian Gulf, a red flame shrouded in black smoke shoots into the haze from a 650-foot stack. The burst of fire is burning off excess fuel as workers rush to finish equipment that will help the nation, already the world’s biggest exporter of [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Launch of new website Perfect Knowledge PR www.perfectknowledgepr.com

PRESS RELEASE
Press Office
Perfect Knowledge PR
27 Mallard House
Townmead Road
London
SW6 2BF
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Perfect Knowledge PR would like to announce the launch of our new web site www.perfectknowledgepr.com. Prefect Knowledge PR is an independent consultancy aimed at the luxury media market.
Perfect Knowledge PR represents the private interests of Perfect Knowledge Ltd, which provides a premium bespoke service to [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Even as police investigate £80m P/onzi scheme, some ‘victims’ can’t believe it

Fraud squad detectives have embarked upon a unique attempt to break the stranglehold that a group of suspected fraudsters holds over hundreds of investors. Clients of Business Consulting International (BCI), a Knightsbridge-based investment firm accused of running an £80 million Ponzi scheme, are being invited to public meetings by [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009