A quick search for "iPhone 5s gold" brings up devices priced as high as $1,500. It's less than the phone's weight in gold, but is still a significant markup above store prices.

Along with the usual black and white color options, Apple just announced that the iPhone 5S will come in gold. It looks like solidified champagne. The gold iPhone isn’t an entire gold brick though.

Both the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s went on sale in 10 countries Friday, but it was the 5s -- and the gold-colored model -- that brought out the crowds to Apple Stores.

A few minutes after sales began online, customer demand began outstripping supply for Apple's high-end iPhone in the new gold color. Silver and "space gray" fared better.

iPhone 5S to go gold, get 128GB option, analyst predicts iPhone 5S may go gold and move up to 64-bit computing, according to an analyst. Brooke Crothers Aug. 15, 2013 9:25 p.m. PT ...

Image: Robert Cardin Behold the gold. I’ve been carrying an iPhone 5 in my pocket for the last year, and the iPhone 5s feels exactly the same. Same curved edges, same dimensions, same everything.

iPhone 5S with rumored gold color option, according to Japanese-language site Macotakara. Notice the dual-LED flash, compared to the single flash on the iPhone 5. Macotakara Gold and sapphire.

In other words, aside from the three color schemes offered this year – Space Gray, Silver and Gold — the 5S looks virtually identical to the old iPhone 5. The Space Gray is a lighter version ...

The iPhone with the golden glow plays hard to get. Apple says that demand for the new iPhones has been "incredible" and acknowledges that "certain models" are sold out or ...

With the following year’s introduction of the iPhone 5s, Apple introduced three new color variants: silver, gold, and space gray.