If you're fed up of your dull, grey safe and want one that not only keeps your priceless jewellery and watch collection, well, safe and looks good while doing it too, then check out the latest offering from Stockinger.
This German company with 30 years of experience specialises in making watch and jewellery safes that combine Swiss and German components, excellent finishes and the latest technology to protect what is precious to you.
Stockinger safes are manufactured mainly for watch collectors and jewellery lovers and the drawers display special watch winders and jewellery trays.
Its latest collection, the Stockinger for Bentley series, is a limited edition of 400 watch and jewellery safes. The Arnage watch safe costs Dh660,000 and the Continental jewellery safe is priced at Dh607,000.
This does not include the Dh80,000 delivery charge you will have to pay if you want one of these beauties.
However, these safes are worth all that cash as every single Stockinger is a unique and bespoke masterpiece. Hallmarks of luxury such as leather linings and a brushed aluminium interior finish combine with seven-layer lacquer to create their exciting beauty.
The surface of each piece is carefully and conscientiously primed, painted and sanded off during an 18-stage manufacturing process. This process takes several weeks and is completed with a finish of the finest carnauba wax, which produces a softer look and lends an unusual optical depth to the paint.
A choice of standard Bentley exterior paints, 10 Stockinger interior suedes and three wood veneer panels gives you an almost infinite number of combinations for commissioning just the look you desire.
About 30 different teams of experts are involved in the manufacture of the safes. The engineers, technicians, craftsmen and artists all have many years of experience.
"Style, grace and security is the hallmark of these safes," said Stockinger owner Dominik von Ribbentrop. "A Stockinger safe will give you freedom and independence and will increase your peace of mind– in style and at all times.
"Stockinger's passion is to enrich the grey world of bulky safes with a high-class product that is as secure as a bank, as precise as a master timepiece and as beautiful as a piece of the finest art."
Both editions have been designed in conjunction with Bentley's head office in Crewe, England. For devotees of fine mechanisms, the Arnage is an elaborate watch safe equipped with state-of-the-art watch winders for exceptional timepieces.
For more than 20 years Stockinger has been integrating watch winder technology into safes. The watch winder runs almost noiselessly and an extremely long, disturbance and maintenance free life is guaranteed.
The Continental, with its six different trays, provides the ultimate storage solution for jewellery.
Whether it be large or small rings, brooches, earrings, wide or narrow necklaces, chokers, cufflinks and bangles, you can present your precious objects at home in a style befitting the finest items made by master jewellers and goldsmiths.
As well as being good looking the safes come with the Stocktronic patented electronic locking system, an integrated emergency alarm, an anchoring device, a fully redundant electronic lock-system with two motor locks and special armoured bolt-work glass plate protected with six special re-lockers. The interiors are fitted with wood panels and leather, special fillings with additional reinforcement and increased protection against diamond core drilling and LED lighting and the safes have a security grade of EN 1143/VDS III.
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