Expensive taste: A model showing off the Birkin handbag during a preview at Christie’s in Hong Kong. — AFP
HONG KONG: A diamond-encrusted crocodile-skin Hermes handbag with white gold details has broken the record for the world’s most expensive ever sold at auction, fetching nearly US$300,000 at a Hong Kong sale.
The rare Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Diamond Birkin 30 went to an unknown phone bidder late Monday for HK$2.32mil (RM1.27mil), beating a pre-sale estimate of HK$2mil, the auction house Christie’s said.
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