Ulysse Nardin Chairman, The World’s Most Expensive Cellphone [Video]

Are you one of the world’s Uber Rich? Do you look at cellphones in the $5,000 – $10,000 range and laugh. Well this is the phone for you then. Ulysse Nardin, the Swiss watch manufacturer, has released its Chairman smartphone, and “Guinness World Records” has already awarded it the title of “Most Expensive Mobile Phone (Cell Phone) Series.”

The Ulysee Nardin Chairman Smartphone features more than 3,000 hand-cut 17-karat diamonds, and a price tag of more than $130,000. There is no instant gratification effect either. Each one takes 700 man hours to build and there is an 8 month wait.

The Company has a rule that they only make 1846 of them a year (the company was founded in 1846). So if you want more than 1 it may be a little difficult.

Ulysee Nardin was expecting between 200- 300 preorders when they debuted the phone at a watch convention. They left that weekend with more than 8000 preorders.

Let’s talk plain, old tech specs: The Chairman is a GSM 3G phone, with 32GB internal memory and a 3.2-inch touch screen display (made of sapphire crystal). It runs a specially designed version of Android Gingerbread and has an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with flash. It comes preloaded with Android apps for Gmail, Facebook, YouTube, and Google Maps. All Chairmans feature a thumbprint reader on the front of the phone for custom unlocking. All Chairmans come with physical numeric keys making it what Ulysse Nardin calls the only Android phone with a physical numerical keypad. A fancy desktop box also ships with each Chairman — fine lacquered wood with two Bluetooth-ready speakers for music and conference calls. It has room for a dock that charges the battery and multiple shelves for storage of international charger adapters.

Do you think that a $100,000 cell phone is completely out of bounds?

Watch this video to see the phone in action