One of the Rolls-Royce cars to glitter the 2017 Geneva Motor Show is a Ghost Elegance, with its paint made from 1,000 crushed diamonds. The paint job named ‘Diamond Stardust’, is the most luxurious and lustrous exterior ever seen on a motor car, and the most expensive paint to grace the body of a Rolls-Royce.
Commissioned for an “individual collector”, the exclusive paint job was created with 1,000 ethically-sourced diamonds, says Rolls-Royce. The paint process saw the diamonds go through extensive testing to ensure their radiance when used in a paint. Goodwood’s Technical Laboratory Leader, Paolo Travaglia, and his team of paint specialists, Rawdon Evernden and Joseph Piotrowski, spent two months of concentrated testing to achieve the perfect result.
An extra final layer of lacquer was applied to protect the diamond particles during the hand-polishing process. This process added an extra two days of paint application by hand and a further day of finishing.
The final exterior touches to this one off Rolls-Royce Ghost have been applied by master coachline painter, Mark Court, with a squirrel-hair paint brush. The flanks of the motor car are accented with Mugello Red and Black twin coachlines. To enhance the exterior further, the centre of the 21 inch wheels are hand-painted with a Mugello Red pinstripe.
On the inside, chauffeur and passenger areas are clearly demarcated as in the early days of luxury motoring. The chauffeur’s ‘cockpit’ features black leather seats with accents of Mugello Red stitching on the doors, and piping on the seats. The black is continued in the carpet and lambswool floor mats. The Tudor Oak veneer is also complemented with a Mugello Red single stitch along the top of the dashboard, and finished with a Bespoke clock.
Adorning the rear sanctuary, the lounge seat is contoured with Selby Grey soft leather and also accompanied with Mugello Red stitching and piping. The inner pockets of the rear doors are lined with a favourite material of the owner – a Grey, Black and Red Tartan.
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