The Midas Touch: $4.8 Billion History Supreme Most Expensive Yacht Ever Sold
By: No Author Indicated
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
The Midas Touch: $4.8 Billion History Supreme Most Expensive Yacht Ever Sold
We’ve seen some opulent yachts, but the 100-foot History Supreme takes the gold-encrusted cake. Stuart Hughes, a British purveyor of luxury gadgets, took a break from his role as an iPad alchemist to create the $4.8 billion superyacht, covered in platinum and gold from bow to stern.
Purchased by an anonymous Malaysian businessman, History Supreme is the most expensive yacht ever sold, according to Luxury Launches. The Daily Mail reports that the impressive vessel took three years to complete and used over a staggering 220,462 pounds of precious metals. Everything – from the base of the boat, to the deck, dining area, rails and anchor – were decked out in gold and platinum.
Photo Credits: Stuart Hughes
The exorbitant price tag is also the result of the lavish master bedroom, adorned in platinum with a wall feature that is made from meteoric stone and a genuine T-Rex dinosaur bone. It is rumored that Robert Kuok purchased the superyacht, worth 10 times the amount Roman Abramovitch (previous title holder for world’s most expensive yacht) paid for the Eclipse megayacht. Kuok is one of only three Malaysians with a net worth of $5 billion or more, according to Forbes billionaire’s list . If the purchase price is accurate, “the most likely buyer is Robert Kuok , the richest man in Malaysia, with a net worth of $12.5 billion,” reports Business Insider .
Credits: Stuart Hughes
Credits: Stuart Hughes
Credits: Stuart Hughes
No politics, no religion, no instagrams, and commentary must be civil. The ToS and the CoC will be enforced, and anything that the administrator deems to be offensive will be deleted. YouTubes, videos and images that the administrator is unable to open must be described and explained or they will be deleted.
Tags
Who is online
30 visitors
This gold and platinum seafaring throne may not have the size or all the facilities that the much larger yachts owned by the Russian oligarchs and Arabian princes have but it is the ultimate in luxury, beyond anything any of us could even dream about. My only question is, who the hell would want to have a dinosaur bone in their bedroom?
Is that a dinosaur bone in your bedroom or are you just glad to see me?
I wonder if many here know where that line came from.
Mae West?
And we have a prize winner!!!
The ultimate in filthy rich people needing something to blow their money on - not conspicuous consumption I guess - but along those lines - regarding the dinosaur bone that is.
Interestingly the yacht cost the buyer almost half of his assets, although more than 4 billion dollars doesn't require him to line up at the welfare wicket.
Yeah, I saw that, couldn't believe he would spend that much - wonder if they live on it and write it off somehow. I know, 4 billion is nothing to sneeze at for sure. I should be so poor.
If it were me I sure would want to live on it and sail the world stopping over at so many places I've never been to, and some that I have. However, he probably has mansions to live in elsewhere.
Mega - rich peoples toys completely bore me.
Well, I wouldn't mind getting a little bored with some of them.
I hear that. I guess I wouldn't mind seeing what it's like being filthy rich for a little while.
I had in mind owning a vineyard in France.
Oui
Tres Chic Buzz
Mais oui.
I would never be thirsty again.
Personally I also find some rich people’s to be boring— yet I also find some to be fascinating! 🤓
And BTW I feel the same way about poor people’s toys! 🤗
As George Orwell could have written, some toys are more equal than others.
You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
I have been on the King of Qatar yacht Katara..
I think the only yacht I've ever been on was a 42 foot Chris Craft owned by a person who was a friend before I was a lawyer who became a client. My ex and I accompanied him and his wife on short cruises.
Myself and a few buddies owned a 35' house boat we moored on the Delaware River in Philly. It could fit about 30 people and a few half kegs of beer and a grill, and not to be forgotten , our Symbolic Palm Tree. We appropriately named this vessel,
The Cirrhosis Of The River!