€50,000 Corkscrew Does No More than $20 Corkscrew

In construction, it couldn't be more different: The finger grip is solid gold (or platinum), the hinges are also available in gold and the there is a choice of woods for the presentation box.... Acquiring a Sveid corkscrew makes you a member of the distinguished family of Sveid corkscrew owners and entitles you to be registered in the owners' list.

There is an elite club of people with only one name. Prince, Madonna, Sting. Now we can add Sveid, purveyor of cutlery and tableware to the rich and mono-monikered.

Sveid offers the €50,000 ($72,600) corkscrew. In operation, it is the same as the Lazy Fish: nested levers ease the cork from its home. In construction, it couldn't be more different: The finger grip is solid gold (or platinum), the hinges are also available in gold and the there is a choice of woods for the presentation box.

Best of all, and probably the most valuable to the kind of wealthy attention seeker who might actually buy this thing, is the exclusivity:

Acquiring a Sveid corkscrew makes you a member of the distinguished family of Sveid corkscrew owners and entitles you to be registered in the owners' list.

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Product page [Sveid via BBGadgets]