Boodles Jewellery Collection | Walpole Luxury Press Day 2013

Boodles is one of the most iconic jewellery brand in UK since 1798 it is owned by the same company. Unlike other family run businesses, Boodles never lost the momentum and struggled with financial problems. As a result of this sustained growth in business and brand image, it is considered as one of the most iconic brands from UK.

Here some of the Boodles’s latest collection from the Walpole Luxury Press Day 2013.

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Ettinger London at Walpole Luxury Press Day 2013

Ettinger London is one of the most iconic British leather goods brands. I had chance to see their whole collection last month during the Walpole British Luxury Brands event at Somerset House. All Ettinger products are made by exquisite craftmenship and hand-made. You won’t see a robot during the manufacturing process. That’s why Ettinger offers state-of-art attention to details. 

Ettinger product range starts from wallets to iPad covers and limited edition are also available, such as Bentley collection since 2005. The main reason Ettinger caught my interest is, you can find the same level of quality you find inside a Bentley car with the Ettinger leather products. 

Here some Ettinger collection; wallet, purses, iPad cases, brief cases, bags and others.

You can find the whole collection from their online store.

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Clive Christian | The World’s Most Expensive Perfume

Clive Christian, the world’s most expensive perfume, Limited Edition version of Clive Christian No 1 Imperial Coronation. Their price range is going up to £600! This sounds a bit unusual for a liquid that smells good. If your approach is like that to perfumes, we cannot cure you :) And here is why Clive Christian is the most expensive perfume, not eau de toilette! Perfume means, it is pure perfume nothing else. Eau de toilette means, a bit of perfume enriched with other things!

I have spoken with the team of Clive Christian at Walpole event, their perfumes use the most expensive and high quality ingredients. The women perfume lies on the Florentine iris, the root is dried for two years and macerated for further years, and in total five years! Rose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, carnation lace the perfume. And finally, Tahitian vanilla is spiced with Tonka seeds, cedar wood, sandalwood and musk amber. All these process and materials are taking time to complete and unique. It is quite hard to transfer this perfume into mass production and sustain the same quality, that’s why they charge a high price for the perfume.

Men perfume is made from lime, Sicilian mandarin and pink grapefruit and the heliotrope and lily of the valley. Comparing to women perfume, men perfume is fresher and influenced with fruit tones. 

The most expensive perfume is the Limited Edition version of Clive Christian No 1 Imperial Coronation. It is created to celebrate the remarkable reign of the Queen Elizabeth II. This limited edition is available with 500 bottles, 250 women and 250 men are allocated. 

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Vertu Ti with Google Android

Vertu Ti, the Google Android powered Vertu phone. Many people were waiting for this phone. Unfortunately, the ties with the Nokia prevented Vertu to expand to Android market a bit late. However, late better than never! Vertu Ti model uses the Google Android operation system with a very competitive hardware configuration. 

During the Walpole British Luxury press day, I had chance to experience the Vertu Ti model. Ti is powered by a dual-core 1.7 GHz CPU with 1GB of RAM and 64GB of internal memory. I really don’t know why but Vertu Ti offers memory card expansion slot. Honestly, I found the memory card expansion slot a bit unnecessary. Many people never use it and become an unused feature of the many mobile phones. However, memory expansion is a plus for marketing purposes! 

The body of the Vertu Ti is made from titanium, literally it is unbreakable and delivers a very solid feeling. Moreover, the touch screen of Vertu Ti is from sapphire. Unlike other many other brands, Vertu is not using the legendary Gorilla Glass brand for the touch screen. Instead of that, Vertu developed the touch screen from a very tough material, sapphire. Literally, you cannot scratch it!

Vertu Ti offers an excellent Android experience, which you will not regret it. Also the exquisite craftsmanship of Vertu creates a great experience. However, the only down side the pixel-per-inch value, 252ppi. Apple and Samsung increased the competition for PPI values and the numbers became so high, even the normal eyes cannot understand difference. Despite the relatively low PPI value of Vertu Ti, the speakers are made by Bang & Olufsen!

Vertu Ti is a pure luxury technology good. Ti may not be very competitive in some areas but in overall, there is no alterative to Vertu Ti in luxury mobile phone market.

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