{"id":341,"date":"2017-07-06T00:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/06\/the-worlds-most-expensive-handbag-sells-for-hkd-380000-in-hk\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T00:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T16:37:39","slug":"the-worlds-most-expensive-handbag-sells-for-hkd-380000-in-hk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/the-worlds-most-expensive-handbag-sells-for-hkd-380000-in-hk\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Most Expensive Handbag Sells For HKD 380,000 In HK"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Designer handbags, especially Herm\u00e9s Birkin Bags, are known to cost into the six digits, but one record-setting sale had a pricey handbag selling for the price of a decent house in Los Angeles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"\">Designer handbags, especially Herm\u00e9s Birkin Bags, are known to cost into the six digits, but one record-setting sale had a pricey handbag selling for the price of a decent house in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"1.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FpDBzmhVRVGRNAs176VEN-93MG5O?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"295.41595925297116\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo:Nextshark<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>After an intense 10-15 minutes bidding war at a Christie\u2019s auction in Hong Kong last Wednesday, a Herm\u00e9s Birkin handbag was sold to an unnamed buyer for a whopping HKD $2.94 million ($380,000), according to SCMP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Described by auctioneers as \u201cthe most desirable handbag in existence,\u201d the item, a rare Matte White Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Diamond Birkin 30 with 18 karat White Gold and Diamond Hardware, was initially thought to fetch around HKD $1.5 million ($192,500) to HKD $2 million ($256,600).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FuCxlXmwICX3guCF3VCljq8VohD9?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"295.41595925297116\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo:Nextshark<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Detailed in gold and encrusted with 245 diamonds, the handbag is even made more valuable by the \u201cdelicately graded crocodile hide\u201d used to make it. The fact that it\u2019s from the sought after Himalaya Birkin line makes it a must have for those who don\u2019t want to be put on a six-year wait list just to get one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most valuable bags are the diamond pieces, and the top collector pieces are the ones from the Himalaya family,\u201d Christie\u2019s international director of handbags and accessories Matt Rubinger was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThis example, with white gold detailing and 245 diamonds, combines the two. It is a Himalaya with diamond hardware, and thus the apex of the market.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"webwxgetmsgimg 1.jpg\" style=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.hiredchina.com\/FlXXlKXBxtykYAuKbjvAxKMwIbVH?imageView2\/0\/format\/webp\/q\/75\" width=\"500\" height=\"543.2937181663837\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Designer handbags, especially Herm\u00e9s Birkin Bags, are known to cost into the six digits, but one record-setting sale had a pricey handbag selling for the price of a decent house &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}