A Holiday Gift for the Guys: Toys for Boys
Wow! A gold (and I mean G*O*L*D) Walther PPK. This is not a toy just for boys; it’s a gorgeous accessory for anyone deadly enough to carry it (Elvis did, Jack Lord did), and it’s one-of-a-kind (you know…unique). So the chances of an Internet entertainment writer getting her hands on one are not looking so great. Oh, well, Santa…you know where my stocking is hung…
Toys for Boys is over 400 pages of the coolest, most state-of-the-art, highly advanced, and terribly expensive (“The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.”) luxury items any material man could desire. Nicely packaged in a gift box with a “Toys for Boys” watch, Toys for Boys is a wishbook for everyone on the planet. Okay, maybe not everyone…
Toys for Boys is all about “the art of living well,” and starts off with a collection of watches that bedazzle. Have you ever seen a man with a wristful of diamonds? Not many of us have, but somewhere there’s a guy with a $200,000 watch trying to keep up with the buy with the million-dollar watch (Black Caviar by Hublot SA). That guy, of course, is trying to keep up with the guy wearing the Blancpain Tourbillion Diamants watch, that goes for close to two million bucks.
When you think of toys for guys, what comes to mind first? Cars? The SLR Stirling Moss from Mercedes Benz would make a lovely gift for the man who’s always wanted a convertible he could drive at 217 mph, and it’s a bargain at approximately 1.25 million. Price tags are not mentioned for most of the cars featured, and us peons may not recognize all the manufacturers or models (Pagani, Spyker, Koenigsegg), but there’s a nice selection of Bugattis and Lamborghinis as well. And where would we be if not for the Bentleys and Rolls Royces?
Pianos that would have made Liberace drool appear in the chapter on electronics and entertainment. This is the chapter that will convince you that the guys with the diamond watches are daft because they probably also have the diamond-encrusted iPod (with the manufacturer’s name spelled out in diamonds on the case). When you get to the yellow gold remote control (about $55,000), the 18-karat gold and diamond computer mouse (approximately $30k; click here to see the world’s ten most expensive), and diamond-studded white gold laptops, you really start to question the mental stability of the 1%. And how about this: “An iPod and a fridge might not be the first combination one would think of but it actually makes a lot of sense. Parties always migrate to the kitchen and music is a cook’s best friend, so the pairing is perfect.” Yep, Gorenje makes a refrigerator that’s an iPod dock. (At the parties the people who buy these items throw, nobody goes into the kitchen—they’d get in the way of the chef and serving staff.)
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