Celsius X VI II LEDIX, the $300k tourbillon dumbphone, gets handled

Yes, folks, what you are looking at is perhaps the world's most overly complex cellphone, and it has been given an overly complex name to match: the Celsius X VI II LEDIX. All those Roman numerals don't convey the sense of power you'll feel in holding this to the side of your face while yelling at your assistant in a futile attempt at gaining the respect of your peers. Despite the phone quite naturally having a battery inside, the (soon to be broken) watch mechanism is purely mechanical, given another three hours of life each time you open and close this clamshell. Inside you can gaze at a design straight out of 1998 and functionality not much more advanced -- a simple browser, text messaging, and tri-band GSM. 3G isn't even on offer here folks, but when you're this rich you can pay other people to download high-res lolcat pictures for you.

[chafic Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:18AM]

@gax907
In an emergency it can buy you a rat burger (Demolition Man ....)

[Phenom Posted Mar 30th 2010 12:03PM]

@gax907 Yeah - all those ppl setting themselves apart with that beautiful glass-slate iPhone... so unique!

[jayantraj7 Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:22AM]

very cool but not worth for buying....

[Caprice Dates Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:28AM]

The funny thing is I know a few old business heads that would dig this thing!

[Bhima Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:30AM]

Great, 600 mechanical parts. Does the thing explode in a cloud of springs, bolts and hinges like a loony toons cartoon when one of those 600 parts break? That would be worth $300K to see.

[spacegravity4me Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:37AM]

If i have this kind of money I'm designing my own ultraPhone

[XChrisX Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:42AM]

The design looks cool but in the era of the iPhone, droid, and evo 4g can these people be serious?!

[JustThatNerdyGuy Posted Mar 30th 2010 10:58AM]

Finally a Mobile Phone that tells the time!

[FredyPons Posted Mar 30th 2010 11:02AM]

GSM is here to last... why would you need 3G or 4G if you just need to call and send messages to your family and friends?
I love my old Nokia, because it is simple and bugs free... I guess this is the intimacy phone for those who have everything.

This is not a phone, this is a piece of Art... don't expect the same features as a disposable phone

I'll never be able to afford it... but it looks amazing

[DeFlanko Posted Mar 30th 2010 11:28AM]

I demand more pictures of this Failgadget.

[TimStevens Posted Mar 30th 2010 11:28AM]

@DeFlanko Click on through to the source. There are plenty there.

[DeFlanko Posted Mar 30th 2010 2:16PM]

@TimStevens

HOLY S*@#, this thing comes with a man purse cell holster.

...Cause that made me want one now.

[Spiky haired boy Posted Mar 30th 2010 11:39AM]

And I bet the materials of the entire phone is only worth $100,000

[BubbaJ Posted Mar 30th 2010 11:40AM]

Now they just need to make an "all-mechanical" bluetooth headset to complete the asshat ensemble.

[Aceyriot Posted Mar 30th 2010 12:32PM]

is it just me or are all these luxphones just rehashes or slightly less ugly phones(motorola i5xx) with a bunch of chitzy crap glued to them? i know im hypercritical and all but when a product is more form and less function...its fahkin annoying.

[Ethereal Posted Mar 30th 2010 3:45PM]

@Aceyriot Nope. www.uncells.com - 8MP camera, Android, Fingerprint reader, 32GB shc, backup power via cool watch mechanism.

[Aceyriot Posted Mar 30th 2010 4:28PM]

@Ethereal i stand erected---er- corrected...but aside from that?

[mrvco Posted Mar 30th 2010 1:00PM]

Very cool how?

[appsman Posted Mar 30th 2010 1:50PM]

I can't wait to buy the Hong Kong knockoff for $30.

[magusxxx Posted Mar 30th 2010 2:02PM]

So on Heroes, every time Sylar heard ticking he didn't have to kill people, he just had to answer his cellphone?

[clocker Posted Mar 30th 2010 5:35PM]

These "uber phones" always leave me wondering "Who buys these things?" There must be some kind of market for them or else they wouldn't make them. I could only see those guys with the jacked up Caprices with 24" rims and the gratuitous 24" sticker on their rear window pimping one of these, if they could even afford it.

[arrgh Posted Mar 30th 2010 6:13PM]

If you have 300K just lying around the last thing you want is a phone call.

[Inspector Gadget80 Posted Apr 1st 2010 9:33PM]

I really could care less paying 300k for that phone, even though I'd say it looks really nice cause of the works inside of it. Remember the Motorola AURA that shit was 2,000$. And who would pay for that?