Welcome to the bonkers billionaire and the plain old millionaires’ madness-end of luxury advent calendaring. These are not some ordinary chocolate or wine or even 14k jewelry calendars — oh no, these are the crème de la crème, the pièce de résistance, the most extravagant of them all. So, grab your monocle and top hat, we’re diving into the world of the most expensive advent calendars.
Let’s jump right in, to the world’s most extravagant Advent calendar, costing a cool $10 million, created by Debbie Wingham, known apparently as the ‘Queen of Christmas,’ this calendar is less about chocolate treats and more about ‘Which country should we own next?’ It’s almost a meter tall, weighs as much as a featherweight boxer, and is packed with goodies like a Chanel purse that costs more than a car and a gold Arabian lamp that had best hold Aladdin’s genie at $87,559. Each day’s reveal is like a mini-Christmas, with gifts that scream ‘I have way too much money!’
So, you’re feeling festive, you’re fabulously wealthy and you still can’t track down a gold-plated reindeer, what do you get? How about the Porsche’s $1 million advent calendar. That’s right, for the price of a small island, you can enjoy the countdown to Christmas with a touch of luxury carmaker flair. Each day, you open a window to reveal: a pair of 18-carat gold sunglasses, a Porsche Designed kitchen, a speedboat, and some cufflinks (that better not be the one on the 25th). Only five were made; it remains unclear whether five were sold.
In 2019 Tiffany & Co unveiled a $112,000 advent calendar, limited to four, filled with 24 of their most luxurious items. This wasn’t just any calendar; it was a four-foot-tall masterpiece featuring a hand-illustrated rendering of their iconic Fifth Avenue flagship store. The most expensive treasures hidden behind its doors included the Tiffany City HardWear Link Bracelet at £12,700, the Paper Flowers Diamond and Tanzanite Flower Drop Earrings at £8,400, the, and the Paper Flowers Pave Diamond Flower Pendant at £7,4751, making every December morning a celebration of luxury and style.
If most of your millions are tied up in meme coins, this might be more your speed; the C W Sellors Chatsworth Winnats Luxury Advent Calendar, at a mere £21,995 (still one left at the time of writing). Styled as an exquisite miniature of the stately Chatsworth House in the Derbyshire Dales, this unique advent calendar opens to reveal 24 meticulously crafted jewelry drawers. Each drawer contains hand-selected treasures by the in-house designer, Rebecca Sellors. From diamond earrings to 18-carat gold pendants, the surprises inside are fit for royalty.
And we’re only scratching the surface of expensive advent calendars here. I haven’t even mentioned Dior, Dr. Barbara Sturm or Carolina Bucci’s jewelry. Can’t wait to find out what eccentricities yours and my favourite brands are cooking up for our luxury advent calendar 2024.
You’ll discover it here it here first, folks. Off the record, on the QT, and very…hush-hush.
