Chapter 216 Too ostentatious
"Hey, I'm 25 years old, so old!"
Sitting on the sofa, Wang Ye shook his head and sighed.
Xue Yiyi sat next to her and smiled and said, "What are you old, you are only 25 years old and still young."
It has been only more than two years since I graduated from college, but Mr. Wang seems to have been around for more than ten years.
Maybe it’s because too many things have happened and too many things have been experienced in the past two years, and my mentality is a bit old.
While chatting with Xue Yiyi, Ellie walked over.
"Sir, this is the Christie's Spring Auction album, and there are two cigars. Do you see if it's necessary to take them?"
As he said that, he handed over a thick and beautifully printed album.
Since Wang Ye quit smoking, he has started smoking cigars. Of course, he cannot smoke those cheap cigars.
The cheapest cigars he stored in the room cost 300 to 400 US dollars each. Most of them were found by Ellie in Xiangjiang, and some of them were sold from various auctions.
"Oh? Are cigars going to be auctioned at Christie's Spring Auction? It seems that they are not ordinary goods." Wang Ye said with a smile.
Christie's and Sotheby's should be regarded as the two most famous auction houses.
And it is a large-scale event like a spring auction. It is definitely not an ordinary thing to take out cigars for auction.
Ellie turned the album directly to the page of the cigar lot and handed it to Wang Ye.
Wang Ye looked at the introduction and it turned out to be a good thing!
There are two cigars to be photographed this time.
The first cigar was launched by Gurkha.
In the world of cigar brands, Gurkha is considered an outlier.
This brand has several characteristics:
The sales volume is actually very large, with sales in several continents, especially in North America, Gurkha’s sales volume is considered very large.
It has a lot of product lines, so many that there are dozens of limited editions!
Then I don’t seem to have heard of the limited edition version, and it’s generally available for sale anyway. For example, Wang Ye’s Fusheng Ruomeng is also a limited edition version, with only 25,000 boxes per year, and it’s gone after it’s sold out.
But the limited edition of Gurkha is different. I don’t know if it’s unsold or why. Anyway, its limited edition can be bought by anyone and can be purchased at any time. Of course, the premise is that you have to have money.
Some products are often priced very high when they are launched, and they are sold for thousands of dollars a box. Then, shortly after they are sold, they will appear cliff-style promotions, which will turn into hundreds of dollars a box.
Another thing is packaging. There are several cigars in Gurkha that are typical of packaging that is better than cigars, which means that the packaging box is more expensive than cigars! Ordinary cigars, when put into a gorgeous and expensive cigar box, transform into a limited edition!
In general, Gurkha gives people the feeling that marketing is ahead of the product, which means that the cost-effectiveness is relatively low.
This Gurkha cigar that appeared at the auction costs one million US dollars per box! This price scared Wang Ye.
He looked at the product introduction carefully.
Each box of this cigar is soaked with a whole bottle of Louis XIII. It is carefully cultivated with high cold and thick soil on the Himalayas, watered with Fijian water, and the whole cigar is wrapped with gold leaves, and a total of 5 carats of diamonds are inlaid on the label logo.
This is simply confusing. Is it a seller of cigars or diamonds?
These cigars are hand-rolled by a group of professionals who are blindfolded throughout the process, allowing their senses to guide their movements
That's right, that's what it means, but what does this mean? Can a group of people roll up cigarettes with their eyes closed and they have a soul than those who roll them up with their eyes opened?
This cigar is said to be bought in any corner of the world, and there will be a manufacturer who will bring white gloves to deliver it.
"Gurkha customers only use the best products, while Gurkha can only produce the best products. This cigar is only suitable for those who want the most unique, luxurious, and most want to show off the cigars."
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After seeing it, Wang Ye couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. One box of one million dollars is filled with 50 cigars, which is 20,000 US dollars each!
He couldn't afford this price.
This thing is not used to buy, but to use it for B!
After reading the whole article, I feel that there is only gimmicks...
After seeing this, look at another cigar. This one is much more reliable, the 50th anniversary edition of Cohiba!
Priced at $350,000!
Cohiba (Gao Xiba), this is the king of the cigar world. After the second, the quality is recognized as the best cigar in the world, and the quality and price are beyond ordinary cigars. The most common cigar smoked by Wangye is this brand.
You can see in the auction album that this cigar is not the usual simple wooden box packaging, but comes with a small cigar cabinet!
This cigar cabinet is not just the type used to store cigars. The appearance of the cigar cabinet is imitated with the leaf pattern of the cuspian ligero tobacco leaves, and the entire cabinet door is made of 24K gold "Golden Door". The golden momentum is already very shocking, not to mention that you can also appreciate the fine tobacco leaves on it up close.
The interior of the cigar cabinet is made of various rare woods such as musk, ebony, cedar and sycamore. The combination of materials highlights the preciousness of the Gaoxiba cigar, but it does not affect the aroma of the cigar itself. The designer's intention is also impressive.
This cigar cabinet is produced by Elie Bleu (headquartered in Paris, specializing in the production of various fine storage boxes), and only produces 50 sets.
In order to make these souvenirs more special, each cigar cabinet will be specially customized by customers, and the buyer's name and number will be added to highlight its unique personalization and uniqueness.
Each cigar cabinet is equipped with 50 Cohiba 50 Aniversario cigars from Habanos. The length of this cigar is nearly 18 cm...
The five-layer cigar storage space, each layer of ten large cigars, takes up half of the space in the cabinet. The lower half is full of cigar-related accessories.
Pull open the next small drawer and you will see a pure leather handmade portable cigar cover.
There is also an ashtray made of rare American obsidian, which fully demonstrates its exquisite hand-crafted art heritage and echoes the proud achievements of Gao Xiba's hand-rolled cigars.
In addition, even the cigar label has its own grid, which is extremely exquisite.
It is worth mentioning that in order to pay tribute to the new era technology, this limited edition cigar cabinet is also equipped with a smart device to track temperature and humidity. Through its exclusive APP, the environment of the cigar cabinet can be learned in a timely manner through handheld devices.
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This is a good thing, and Wang Ye couldn't help but be moved. This is different from the "million dollar cigar" above. This is a real limited edition, with only 50 sets around the world!
If you miss it, you will never be able to do it again.
"Buy this 50th anniversary limited edition of Gao Xiba!" Wang Ye ordered.
Ellie nodded. Since Wang Ye was going to buy it, she would go to the auction and shoot the cigar.
I was bored, Wang Ye looked through other contents of Christie's Spring Auction. This kind of large auction usually has a lot of good things.
What kind of artwork, porcelain, jewelry, etc.
Wang Ye hasn't attended such an auction before, because he has just risen and is busy with his career all day long, and he doesn't have so much leisure to enjoy life.
In other words, his taste has not yet been cultivated, and looking at the oil paintings that cost millions and tens of millions of yuan, he said he could not appreciate them.
After flipping around, Wang Ye stopped when he saw something. This thing was a bit interesting...
After looking at it for a long time, Wang Ye felt that he should take pictures of this thing, which seemed to be useful in the future.
Turning backwards, when we reached the last page, this was the finale. We used two full pages to introduce it, which aroused Wang Ye's interest.
This is a half-mountain mansion in Xiangjiang. This mansion is located at No. 22 Baijia Road, Peak. It is a three-storey detached house with an area of about 1,099 square meters and a full sea view of Victoria Harbor. In addition, there is a large garden of more than 2,200 square meters, with a small wood and a large meadow in the courtyard.
Judging from the exposed pictures, the full sea view of Victoria Harbor seen on the mansion on the mountaintop is indeed very beautiful.
The starting price is HK$1.5 billion, which is approximately RMB 1.3 billion!
After watching it, Wang Ye finally felt a little too small...
If you go to Xiangjiang to buy a luxury house, such a house worth about 1,000 square meters will no longer satisfy Wang Ye.
Perhaps the villas of those wealthy families can make Wang Ye look at them, but they don’t sell them. There is no major problem with the business, so who would sell his own house?
Therefore, if you really want to buy a property in Banshan, Xiangjiang, you really need to wait for the opportunity to appear. Due to the scarcity of luxury houses there, there may not be a single one to be transferred for several years or even more than ten years.
Therefore, this time a half-mountain mansion was to be transferred became the finale at Christie's Spring Festival auction.
After thinking for a while, Wang Ye decided to give up. Since he wanted to buy it, he would buy the best one. Why should he buy such a big deal?
I spent a lot of money, but I didn’t like it. Isn’t this a waste of money?
"Eli, when you bid, put on Bluetooth headphones and keep in touch with me. I am interested in buying this lot."
Wang Ye called Ellie to his side, turned to the bidding item that had just aroused his interest, and ordered.
After taking a look, Ellie nodded to show that she remembered it.
Lian Xueyi also stretched her head over and glanced at her curiously, and asked with a smile: "Why are you buying this thing? It's so silly."
"Haha, we can't use this, but it's very suitable for someone to use it. This is a gift I have prepared for others. It will definitely bring her a surprise at that time." Wang Ye explained with a smile.
"This is definitely a girl, right?" Xue Yiyi said with a smile.
"Don't think wrong, this is a commercial investment..."
Chapter completed!