Agreed. The title of this article isn’t very Rolls-Royce-ish. But it speaks the truth. Almost no one would want a ghost unless Rolls-Royce made it. And what you see here is an extra-special Ghost. It’s what the British luxury marque calls the Black Badge Ghost Ékleipsis Private Collection. Sure, that name is a mouthful and a half, but the way it captures the rarely observed celestial phenomenon of solar eclipse, one would forget everything else.
When the Moon completely obscures the Sun, that event leads to an interplay of light and darkness. And how Rolls-Royce has captured that. The exterior paint is called Lyrical Copper. It features powdered copper pigment, which appears dark until light falls on it. When that happens, the body colour has a shimmering glow. The car also gets bright orange accents below the grille and on the brake callipers. Even the hand-painted stripe on the side is of the same hue.
Things get really bespoke when one steps inside the Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost Ékleipsis Private Collection. What the headliner does once the door is closed and the engine is started is unlike anything. It replicates the solar eclipse when the Moon blocks the Sun’s centre, and we can only see light emitting from the circumference. That is captured using 940 lights, surrounded by 192 others, replicating the visible stars in the sky during daylight. This animation remains visible for precisely 7 minutes and 31 seconds, as the solar eclipse cannot exceed that. After that, the headliner returns to showing the entire constellation of stars.
The next highlight is the clock on the dashboard. It features 1,846 laser-etched backlit sections. To capture the single point of intense illumination, which can be observed on the Moon’s outline just before and after the full eclipse, Rolls-Royce has inserted a 0.5-carat diamond on the clock’s bezel. Never before has Rolls-Royce used a gemstone to adorn its vehicle’s clock.
The bi-coloured seats, which boast more than 200,000 individual perforations, also capture the transition between light and darkness. The vibrant orange, or Mandarin in Rolls-Royce’s world, leather is tinted in black shade, then perforated to reveal the brighter colour underneath. Besides the seats, the Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost Ékleipsis Private Collection boasts backlit treadplates, umbrellas with Mandarian piping and a unique indoor car cover with a ‘Private Collection’ watermark.
Rolls-Royce will make only 25 units of this bespoke Ghost. And no points for guessing; all have already been accounted for.
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