United States. The Rolls-Royce Ghost Elegance is the first luxury car finished with a paint incorporating 1000 crushed diamonds. Ethically sourced diamonds went through extensive testing to ensure their radiance when incorporated into paint.
Goodwood's technical laboratory leader, Paolo Travaglia, and his team of paint specialists, Rawdon Evernden and Joseph Piotrowski, spent two months of concentrated testing to achieve the perfect result. Examining the dimensions of the gemstones with the use of a high-powered microscope, the team carefully analyzed their transmission and reflection of light. The density and strength of the diamonds created a challenge for the team to produce an easy marriage with the clear paint and its ability to gracefully spread over a surface, leaving the diamonds undetectable to the touch.
This process resulted in the creation of a very fine diamond powder that was then mixed into the paint. In addition, a new and unique painting process was developed, including the application of an additional final layer of lacquer to protect diamond particles during the manual polishing process. This process added two additional days of hand paint application and another day of finishing.
The last elegant exterior touches to this Rolls-Royce have been applied by the master garage painter, Mark Court, with a squirrel hairbrush. The flanks of the motor car are accentuated with red Mugello and black twin coachlines. To enhance the exterior, the center of the 21-inch wheels are hand-painted with a red Mugello pinstripe. Last but not least, on the bow of the car, displayed in all its glory, a spirit of ecstasy guided by this unique Rolls-Royce, and its owner, in the future.
Source: Rolls-Royce.
