When it comes to watches, nothing can beat the Swiss watches. Joining this reputation is a famous Swiss designer Matthias Pugin with his new creation called the “Switchital Clock”. Pugin’s Switchital Clock is not like any other ordinary clocks. It features a digital screen on which, letters for showing time are formed with small metal bars that are attached with small magnets underneath. Due to its unique time changing manner, the clock however, doesn’t show the seconds. It only displays the hour and minute. It’s quite fascinating to watch the clock change time.

With every single minute, some of the digital letters start to move or spread over the background and disappear in the frame and the new minute is displayed. The built-un magnets help this movement that starts pulling to the next position.

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Technology marries luxury here! There is no dearth of luxury phones but now it seems that the surging production of Nokia models is a reason enough for designers to add bling to the existing handsets. Whilst last month we featured here diamond slapped N-95 from Continental Mobiles and Nokia 8800 Arte retailed for $134,000 by Peter Aloisson and today here is an excusable update to the unending list. Designed and developed by Swiss luxury designer and jeweler Knalihs Athem, featured above is a limited edition diamond encrusted Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte. Festooned with over 1000 finest quality brilliant cut diamonds weighing 6.75 carats, counted 20 such handsets will be produced globally. An appropriate and official diamond grading report from a gemological lab accompanies every handset.

Befitting your taste and desires, the handset can be personalized with name, initials, lucky number, logo and almost about anything of your choice. Priced at $20,000, the diamond encrusted Nokia 8800 Sapphire Arte by Knalihs Athem is a perfect example of redifining luxury. Each of these handsets is handcrafted with exceptional precision and skilled swiss craftsmanship using high quality materials. The phone is produced on order basis.

The mention of Athem is not new to the world of opoluence and exemplifying that there exists gamut of bejeweled models across diverse brands i.e. Nokia, Apple, Samsung, Sony and others. All the phones are made to order basis as Knalihs Athem works on limited editions.