Hong Kong shops offer ‘afterlife’ edition of Apple Watch for your dead grandma

Just days after the Apple Watch was unveiled at the March 9 launch event, a couple of small stores in Hong Kong have gotten their hands on a special edition that is unlikely to be found even in official Apple stores.

Vendors that specialise in selling worldly goods made out of paper to be burned as gifts for deceased relatives ahead of the annual “tomb sweeping” festival were quick to make their copies.

Traditionally the so-called joss paper is used to make “spirit money” or “ghost money”.

More recently, however, the offerings have expanded to include replicas of luxury homes, fast cars, cosmetic sets, booze, fags and electronics.

And this year’s must-have item is undoubtably that watch. Seriously though, what dead person has time to look at a phone?

Though the afterlife edition doesn’t quite have the same build quality we’ve come to expect from Apple, it does come with two of the latest iPhone models and a Samsung Android handset, just in case the Apple brand is not to their liking.

At just a few dollars, it’s for sure the best value option on the market for keeping in touch with loved ones in the afterlife.