The iPhone 5S, in many ways, was the pinnacle of the original iPhone design. It was lightweight but sturdy. And like the iPhone 5, it had the "large" (at the time) 4-inch screen.
Notably, the iPhone 5S was the first iPhone to finally get rid of that rounded-square icon on the home button, thanks to the implementation of the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. It was also the first iPhone with a gold color option.
Everything about this phone, from its mix of aluminum and glass, to the clean look of the new home button, to the location of the volume and power buttons, to its size in the hand, was pretty much perfect. Its spirit lives on in the iPhone SE, which looks identical to the iPhone 5S but packs the processor of an iPhone 6S under the hood.