東京珠寶店造迪斯尼風格純金聖誕樹

日本東京一家珠寶店近期打造了一棵自動旋轉的純金聖誕樹，配以純金製成的米老鼠、灰姑娘等50個迪斯尼卡通形象作爲裝飾，售價爲420萬美元。據悉，這棵聖誕樹總共用去40公斤黃金，高2.4米，直徑1.2米，是由10位工匠花兩個月的時間手工打造而成的。爲了方便手頭不太闊綽的顧客購買，該珠寶店還製作了一款25釐米高的縮小版純金聖誕樹，配了20個迪斯尼卡通形象，售價爲24.3萬美元。目前，縮小版聖誕樹已找到買家。

For those seeking a glow to their Christmas this year, a jewelry store in downtown Tokyo has just the answer: a pure gold revolving "tree" covered in Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, Tinker Bell and Cinderella.

The tree-like ornament is made of 40 kg (88 pounds) of pure gold, standing about 2.4 meters (7.9 ft) high and 1.2 meters in diameter. It is decorated with pure gold plate silhouette cutouts of 50 popular Disney characters and draped with ribbons made of gold leaf.

The price tag? A mere 350 million yen ($4.2 million).

But the ornament is actually a deal, said Tomoko Ishibashi, in the marketing department of Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry, which runs the Ginza Tanaka jewelry store.

"Right now gold is over 4,400 yen per gram. We used pure gold and had an expert craftsman form each Disney character by hand," she said of the decoration, which took 10 craftsmen two months to complete.

The combination of gold and Disney characters had spectators mesmerized.

"It is very vivid and the gold is very pretty," said Takashi Miura, a 36-year-old jeweler. "The characters on it are also really cute and it really looks like a Christmas tree."

For those with less ready cash, the store offers a scaled-down version that features 20 Disney characters and stands 25 cm high for a mere 2 million yen ($243,000).

While nobody has yet made a down payment on the larger tree, the miniature has already found buyers, Ishibashi said.