What did you get your dad for his last birthday? A Blu-Ray box set? Some kind of power tool? I’m guessing you didn’t get Rolls Royce to build a bespoke Cullinan SUV with an interior crammed full of mother of pearl. But that’s what one long-time Rolls client did in early 2022, and more than 18 months later the spectacular result has finally been revealed.
Granted, it was the customer’s father’s 90th birthday, so not a regular card-and-cake anniversary, but even still, this is one extravagant gift. Rolls didn’t say how much the customized SUV cost, but given that a stock Cullinan comes in at more than $350k, he must have been looking at forking out well over $700k (and praying that the old guy actually made it to the big nine-oh to see and enjoy it).
The gorgeous Bespoke Pearl Rose paint is exclusive to this car, inspired by the most prized pearl in the owner’s apparently extensive collection, and required 30 separate attempts to get right. Each version was applied to a full body panel, then sent from Goodwood to the customer at his home so he could check the color in the Middle Eastern sunshine. When he’d finally given the nod, the entire car was painted before being finished off with a single coachline applied by hand in Rose Gold to match the rose gold-plated Spirit of Ecstasy mascot and sill treadplates.
Related: Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost Ekleipsis Is A Limited Edition Inspired By A Solar Eclipse
Inside, the front and rear seats are upholstered in two different colors, the fronts getting a cashmere gray hide because that’s where the pops likes to sit and that’s his favorite color. The rears, meanwhile, are matched to the hue of the cushions used to present pearls to customers. And from there, things go pearl-crazy. Each of the SUV‘s rear picnic tables is inlaid with 1,351 pieces of mother of pearl and both the dashboard clock face and its surround are finished with the same stuff.
The burr walnut fascia also features a mother-of-pearl inlay inspired by Middle Eastern art, and the finishing touch is a Bespoke Starlight Headliner showing how the sky looked on the night and at the place the customer’s father was born. And there’s us thinking personalization was just about picking the right combo of available paint and wheels and hoping no one else in town had ticked the same boxes on the configurator.
