Ummmm…huh?! Even if I had $13k just laying around, I’m not going to spend it on … a basketball. I’m sure there is someone out there that will make this purchase though. What’s $13k to a celeb or athlete? Check out the details & let us know what you think…
*PHOTO ABOVE IN GALLERY*
Via YahooSports:
Look at that basketball. Look at it. Pure beauty, right? Geometric and aesthetic perfection, achievement and aspiration bound inextricably together in a single seamed sphere. And it’s yours for a mere $12,900. Sure, that’s a lot, but beauty ain’t cheap, you philistine.
This basketball, the product of Hermès, is handstitched calfskin leather, and as you’d imagine, it’s not exactly meant for you to film dunk videos in your driveway. The ball is crafted in the style of the company’s ‘Birkin’ bag, but you already knew that. It’s meant to promote the company’s reopened 12,000-square-foot Beverly Hills “boutique” shop.
The ball’s deep blue stands for “the sky, the ocean and all the beautiful pools that are a way of life in LA and Southern California,” according to Robert Chavez, American CEO of Hermès. You could, in theory, add the blue of the Oklahoma City Thunder to that list, but Hermès probably thinks that Oklahoma City is one of those mythical lands like Atlantis.
Chavez says the ball is indeed fully functional. “The leather is sturdy,” he said. “Why not make such a unique item come to life on the court?” Said court must be of hand-hewn and gently aged redwood planks shellacked with organic lacquer, of course. There are only two of these balls in existence.
-Lead photo via
