Madreperla
Madreperla is a Ferrari white paint color in the Bianco family: hex #D9D9D8, RGB 217, 217, 216, closest Pantone PMS 649 C. The value is a photo-derived estimate (low confidence), not a verified chip.
| Family | Bianco — Ferrari white colors |
|---|---|
| Hex | #D9D9D8 |
| Also known as | also Madreperla Semi-Gloss |
| RGB | 217, 217, 216 |
| CIE L*a*b* | 86.7, -0.2, 0.5 |
| Closest Pantone | PMS 649 C (#D6D6D8, ΔE 1.8) |
| Paint code | Not published |
| Finish | Pearlescent |
| Era | Modern (Ferrari Luce Tailor Made, 2026) |
| Value | Photo-derived estimate · low confidence |
Sources: RM Sotheby's
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About Madreperla
One-off Tailor Made finish on the first production Ferrari Luce, "Chassis 0", sold by RM Sotheby's at Monterey on 15 August 2026 for $40 million with every dollar going to The Ferrari Foundation. The catalogue calls it "an exclusive Madreperla Semi-Gloss finish, developed specifically for this car", whose formulation "incorporates a dedicated Ferrari Tailor Made pigment, capable of producing iridescent reflections that evolve from green to violet depending on the intensity and angle of the light"; the semi-gloss top coat sits between gloss and matt and, RM says, makes every application unique. The car's theme was light and white — wheels, calipers and a white-background badge to match — with an interior in Perla metallic leather and Grigio Corvara details. The value shown is the average of the body in RM's dim studio photographs and only approximates a mother-of-pearl paint whose color shift those photos do not capture; in daylight it will read whiter. Not the catalogue Bianco Perla, though the two sample alike here.
The story of Madreperla
Madreperla is the semi-gloss pearl of "Chassis 0", the first production Ferrari Luce, configured by Tailor Made and sold by RM Sotheby's at Monterey on August 15, 2026 for $40,000,000 with all proceeds to The Ferrari Foundation — a record for a new car at auction, Ferrari's magazine notes. RM's catalog says the finish was developed specifically for the car, its pigment "capable of producing iridescent reflections that evolve from green to violet"; Ferrari says a semi-gloss clearcoat was chosen to bring it closer to natural mother-of-pearl, madreperla in Italian. Wikipedia records the buyer as Herbert Wertheim, and ANSA noted the price beat the $26 million paid for a Tailor Made Daytona SP3 a year earlier.
Sources: RM Sotheby's, 2026 Ferrari Luce 'Tailor Made' 338000, Monterey 2026, lot 345 · Ferrari magazine, Ferrari Luce Tailor Made Chassis 0 (15 September 2026) · duPont Registry, Ferrari Luce Chassis 0 sells for $40 million (15 August 2026) · Wikipedia, Ferrari Luce (cites ANSA and La Gazzetta dello Sport, 17 August 2026) · ANSA, Ferrari Luce, la one-off Tailor Made venduta a 40 milioni di dollari (17 August 2026) · Wikipedia, Nacre · Grokipedia, Nacre (cites acs.org and academic.oup.com)