The Rolls-Royce Spectre Lunaflair is the car with the most spectacular paint job you have ever seen

It seems that hardly any time has passed, but we are about to reach the two-year mark since the Rolls-Royce Spectre was presented, a period in which even tuning artists such as Spofec have been able to create their work on the first fully electric car from the English brand. But Rolls-Royce is also known for creating one-off cars, one-off, and until now there had been none for the Spectre.

An important multimillionaire client of American nationality has chosen to have a fully electric Spectre in his garage, with the particularity that he didn’t hesitate to spend a small fortune more to have a unique Spectre, specifically the Spectre Lunaflair, whose exterior alone will leave you staring open-mouthed for a while.

To create this Spectre Lunaflair, the craftsmen at Rolls-Royce drew inspiration from another one-off they had built last year, the Phantom Syntopia, which featured the iridescent Liquid Noir paint that, depending on how the sun hits it, reflects shades of purple, blue, magenta and gold. For the Spectre Lunaflair, the client wanted a holographic paint that would create the rainbow effect of the lunar halo.

This lunar ring or halo appears as a circle of multicoloured light around the moon, something that happens when moonlight is refracted through the ice crystals of the clouds located at the highest altitudes, also called cirrus. Being in the colder layers of the atmosphere, these ice crystals act as microscopic prisms, creating that ring of light similar to when light passes through a diamond.

But achieving this on a car’s bodywork is another story. In fact, the craftsmen at Rolls-Royce needed more than a year of experimentation to pull it off, during which the paint chemistry, application times and base coat were thoroughly tested to achieve what the client requested. To do so, seven layers of lacquer were applied, including a pearlescent layer with a special formula impregnated with fine flakes of magnesium fluoride and aluminium, resulting in a deep metallic effect in low light that bursts into a rainbow when the sun hits it.

Since they were already working on the exterior, they also created a bespoke interior in Navy Blue, White and Peony Pink tones, the colours reminiscent of the spectrum seen during the lunar halo, present on the door panels, seats and the Starlight roof upholstery itself.