This Advent calendar will set you back more than $10 million

By Brelaun Douglas via SWNS

This Advent calendar will set you back over $10 million.

Self-confessed 'Queen of Christmas' Debbie Wingham created the “world’s most expensive Advent calendar,” valued at a staggering $10,368,423 (£7.8 million).

Debbie created the calendar on commission from a Swiss client who was searching for the ultimate Christmas gift for his family. It merges individual gifts with the family’s travel plans for the upcoming year.

“My client told me ‘we have a country to visit each month for a whole year and I need a way to represent these countries in a 'keep them guessing' kind of way,’” Debbie said.

"It came to me all at once. I needed to create an Advent calendar, replicating the 12 days of Christmas, corresponding to the exciting travel schedule of my client.

“When I conceptualized the calendar idea, I spoke to my client who told me he loved the concept and I realized it was a marriage made in heaven when he listed some of the Christmas gifts he was planning to give his wife and kids on top of the vacations, most of which had similarities to the countries they were set to visit.

“For example, a Ferrari 488 Pista he bought for his wife would sit very nicely in the Milan window of the Advent calendar, referencing Italian sports car.”

In order to keep the calendar exciting and fit larger items into it, Debbie, who is British but now lives in Marbella, Spain, curated unique trinkets made as individual art pieces in each window.

Visual representations of the destinations the family will visit - including Paris, Dubai, New York and Disneyland - were hand-painted in oil by Debbie.

12th day painting. (Uthman Studio via SWNS)

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Each gift in its window matches the destination painted on the window, such as a Disney ornament adorned with white diamonds and an ultra-rare red diamond placed in the window for the family’s Disneyland trip.

Debbie was told the family will follow the traditional format of an Advent calendar, opening one window per day for the next 11 days.

The calendar without any of the items inside weighs a staggering 108 lbs (49kg).

The structure is made from reclaimed ebony and lacquered in a black diamond paint to give it a reflective finish. It also uses luxury items, including reclaimed Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Goyard, Chanel and diamonds.

The calendar itself, including the reclaimed ebony and the paintings, are valued at $252,066 (£190,000). It took Debbie almost a year to create.

Each painting is valued between $15,919- $26,533 (£12,000 - £20,000) and took around two to three weeks to complete.

Items inside the calendar include a Paris Chanel purse embellished in diamonds and signed by Debbie - valued at $23,216 (£17,5000) - a Milan-Ferrari art piece symbolic for the Ferrari 488 pista - valued at $862,332 (£650,000) - and a Dubai New Year’s Eve gold Arabian lamp with diamond and emerald details - valued at $87,559 (£66,000).

Florida window. (Uthman Studio via SWNS)

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All together, items in the calendar total $6,898,658 (£5.2 million).

Combined, the calendar and all its gifts total a staggering $10,368,423 (£7.8 million).

Coined the Queen of the 'World’s Most Expensive', Debbie revealed the “world’s most expensive picture frame” - valued over $2 million (£1.5million) - earlier this year and the “world’s most expensive Christmas tree” - valued over $17 million (£12.5 million) - in 2019.