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The gold Apple Watch will leave your Apple Wallet empty with rumours of $5,000 price tag

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By John McCarthy, Opinion Editor

November 5, 2014 | 2 min read

Apple’s luxury watch - made of actual gold - has been touted to retail as high at $5,000 when it is released next year, as the electronics giant looks to dethrone Rolex as the king of the luxury wristwatch.

Apple's Rose Gold smartwatch has been touted to retail as high as $5,000

The company said the entry-level smart watches will retail from $349 but that it will also produce a special edition 18-carat gold version of the device. This will go for as much as $5,000, according to French tech site iGen which quoted an anonymous source.

The French site correctly leaked the dimensions of the iPhone 6 and 6 + earlier this year and the $5,000 price tag matches a prediction from prominent Apple blogger John Gruber.

Earlier this week it emerged that the wearables are set for a spring 2015 release following the leak of an Apple memo from the firm’s senior vice president of retail and online stores Angela Ahrendts.

The Apple Watch will be a hefty investment for consumers, especially as the firm’s chief executive Tim Cook admitted that it will probably need to be charged once a day.

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