Aug. 15 (UPI) – A Spaniard with a particular fondness for Nokia phones set a Guinness World Record by collecting 3,615 unique mobile phones.

Barcelona resident Wences Palau Fernandez said his love for these phones began when he received a grey Nokia 3210 for Christmas in 1999. In 2008, he started collecting Nokia phones, which he previously couldn’t afford.

At some point he expanded his collecting to include phones from other brands and thus amassed the world’s largest collection of mobile phones.

“My collection has been growing steadily and although I neglected it for about a year, I then jumped back into the fray with the intention of acquiring all the phones Nokia released, as well as those that never went on sale, the phones we all know as prototypes,” he told Guinness World Records.

Some of the more unusual phones in his collection include the Yoda, Starfighter, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Cyborg and Padawan versions from the Nokia 3220 Star Wars Episode III collection.

“In my collection I have very exclusive and hard to find models,” he said. “My current collection is the result of a lot of perseverance and financial commitment. If you are a collector, you know exactly what I mean. A collection that is still incomplete, but which I will continue to expand whenever possible.”