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Luxury mobile phones: all in the best possible taste?
- 08/05/2012
Ulysse Nardin's Chairman – timeless elegance or tasteless extravagance?
Ulysse Nardin (2012) ©Scope
In only 33 short years – since the first commercial cellular system was installed by NTT in Tokyo – the mobile phone has gone from yuppie lightsaber to everyday technology. But is there space for luxury in such a broad and rapidly evolving category? And, if so, what form will it take? -
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