iPhone 5S photo avalanche shows off Apple's champagne jacket

Feast your eyes on this gallery of photos of the iPhone 5S casing in the colour that all the kids are calling "Champagne".

It's really awfully nice of the internet to go with champagne instead of cava, say, or that other yellow-ish-gold-ish substance, urine.

Anyway, these pictures come from relatively new tipster on the block Sonny Dickson who claims to have nabbed the extensively photographed rear-housing from a source in Apple's Asian supply chain.

Throwing a Veuve ball

There's not much more to say beyond "here are the pictures", so here are the pictures:

We're expecting to see the iPhone 5S launch date land at some point in September - September 10 looks like a good bet if you're the gambling type.

• In the meantime, here's everything we know about the iPhone 5S so far - and the lesser-spotted cheapo iPhone 5C which may launch at the same time.