Can ordinary paint cost $ 10,000? Which of them are considered the most expensive in the world?
- Lapislazuli for 2500 euros
- BMW Serebryanka for $ 10,000
- The most expensive paint in painting
- Printer ink is the most expensive
Lapislazuli for 2500 euros
Today in Moscow you can order Lapislazuli paint (the manufacturer is the world leader in the field of paints for auto repair, the German brand Standox, specializing in innovative and environmentally friendly paints and varnishes).
Lapislazuli - blue, containing particles of gold. A liter is sold at a price of 5 thousand DEM (without customs and VAT). It is not surprising that there are not so many customers.
So far in the world there are only five cars painted with this “blue-gold” paint (one of the owners of the car is an Arab sheikh).
If you paint a VAZ-nine, the price will be 19 500 DEM, at the current exchange rate - 11 102 USD (and this is without the cost of work). The VAZ-2109 itself will cost three times cheaper.
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BMW Serebryanka for $ 10,000
BMW is almost as good as Standox: the famous automobile brand, creating exclusive equipment for BMW Individual, produced paint for the body color called Pure Silver Metal. For the first time, fans of the brand saw this painting option on the updated version of the BMW M5, a sports sedan that appeared in 2013.
The Individual list has more than 230 different shades, but it is “pure silver” that has become the most expensive. To paint a BMW car in this color will cost 10 thousand USD (if we are talking about the very M5 sedan, then painting will be 1/9 of the cost of a car, its price is about 90 thousand USD).
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Among the paints used in painting, natural ultramarine occupies a top position in cost. It is made of lapis lazuli stone (lapis lazuli, azure, Bukhara stone, lapis lazuli).
It is a rare mineral; in the Middle Ages it reached Europe from Afghanistan in difficult ways and Iranoil was very expensive: merchants knew how difficult it was to mine, and the merchant routes were long and dangerous. Then the name “ultramarine” appeared (from the Latin words ultra and mare, “delivered from across the sea”).
It was possible to get the paint from lapis lazuli mechanically (manual grinding, removing impurities), and no more than 3 pounds of product came out of 100 pounds of mineral. Of course, the artists themselves could not afford to use ultramarine in painting: everything depended on the consistency of secular and church customers of their work.
In 1826 (or 1827), the French chemist Jean-Baptiste Guimet discovered the method of producing artificial ultramarine, the next year received a prize for his invention, and in 1830 he built a plant for its mass production. Initially, synthetic Guimet ultramarine was also sold at a high price: 600 francs per kg. But with the rapid development of chemistry, he, of course, became cheaper.
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An amazing fact: commonplace ink for a printer costs as much as 165 thousand rubles. per liter. Its drop is higher in value of the most expensive raw materials for elite perfumes - sandalwood, jasmine and osmanthus. For example, HP refills 3.5 ml of a single color ink into a cartridge, which costs $ 10.5. A liter of such a liquid will cost $ 3000.
It is curious that the actual production is cheap.The high cost of the final product is due to the constant need to raise funds for subsequent research and innovation - the production of new types of paints and inks.
If the high cost of ultramarine and printer ink is justified, then BMW's quirks look somewhat strange: what's the point of producing products that are available to several people on the planet?
