Businessman buys golden shirt for $240,000

India is a country known for its love of gold, but for one businessman, a ring or chain was not enough. Datta Phuge is now the proud owner of a golden shirt worth US$240,000, made up of 14,000 pieces of 22-carat gold and put together by 15 craftsmen over 16 days. The 42-year-old, who lives in the Pune district of western Maharashtra state, hatched the plan late last year with a local jeweller friend. At 3.32 kilograms, the end product is so hefty Phuge said he had asked Guinness World Record to recognize his shirt as being the heaviest.

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