In November, Bugatti introduced a new, truly wild product that it had produced in collaboration with Champagne Carbon. Now, one lucky customer gets to take the absolutely massive “La Bouteille Noire” home.
Taking center stage in front of an audience of Bugatti guests and customers, the bottle was auctioned off at an exclusive event held at a new fancy boutique hotel in London called—what else?—The Londoner.
During the auction and throughout the evening, painter and fashion designer, Mr. Dripping, created a live art piece celebrating the partnership between Bugatti and Champagne Carbon. The automaker, annoyingly, hasn’t provided us with any photos of the art piece.
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Bugatti also hasn’t revealed how much the bottle actually went for, but I suppose that would be gauche. Instead, it prefers to simply say that there were several high-value offers made on the bottle and that the highest bidder was a long-time Bugatti mark customer who has put it in his private collection.
The bottle, a 4-gallon (15-liter) Nebuchadnezzar, is made entirely of carbon fiber and required 150 hours of work and no fewer than 37 steps to assemble. But that’s not where it stops.
If you’re paying top dollar for a stupidly oversized bottle, you don’t want to besmirch it by putting it into contact with something as plebian as ice and, thank heavens, you don’t have to. The bottle comes with a case (of course also made of carbon fiber) that has 14 high-end fans inside to cool the bottle and keep it at a perfect drinking temperature.
Of course, inside there are all kinds of premium materials like Havana Brown grain leather, LED lights, sanded acrylic glass, and brushed aluminum to make it look a bit like La Voiture Noire, the one-off car that inspired the case.
But the special doesn’t stop there. Now that it has an owner, he will be allowed to work with Achim Anscheidt, Bugatti’s director of design, to incorporate further unique design elements into the case to make it a truly original creation. Annoyingly, the company has once again deprived us of any further details about what will be modified but does say that the owner’s personal taste will be considered.
“I’m very much looking forward to collaborating further with La Bouteille Noire’s new owner to customize this unique piece of sculpture,” said Anscheidt. “We will be utilizing the combined expertise of our Molsheim designers and craftsmen and women to represent the customer’s personal sense of style in stunning form.”
In case you read this and got thirsty, you can buy your very own bottle of Bugatti branded champagne from Carbon, though those bottles cost as much as €1,090 ($1,237.75 USD at current conversion rates).