[Image: Sweet Charms Pavée watch and Sweet Charms Pavée Bracelet Joaillier watch]
This year, Van Cleef & Arpels illustrates the inventiveness and fairylike quality of its watchmaking universe with two emblematic examples of the Maison’s savoir-faire: jewels that tell the time and Poetic Complications watches. Its High Jewellery expertise has given rise to creations that capture the hours in their most precious finery. Time confides itself like a secret or glitters flamboyantly, magnified by precious stones. From diamonds to coloured sapphires, gems also punctuate the Poetic Complications collection. Taking pride of place this year with a particularly rich selection, the latter brings together the refinement of traditional crafts and technical sophistication to express the sources of Van Cleef & Arpels’ inspiration. In bringing to life a ballet of butterflies, a swallow or a graceful fairy, the Maison has deployed unbounded creativity to reinvent the poetry of time, charged with enchantment and emotion.
[Image: Snowflake High Jewellery watch and Snowflake Fleurette High Jewellery watch].
Genuine jewels and enchanting timepieces, the High Jewellery watches depict the passage of the hours with sparkling poetry. From nature to ballet and couture, Van Cleef & Arpels’ cherished themes and expression in the meeting of two skills: the measurement of time and the excellence of jewellery savoir-faire. While the ingenuity of invisible clasps and assembly techniques brings flexibility and elegance to the bracelets, the stones are carefully selected and matched in keeping with the most stringent criteria. Diamonds are revealed in all their brilliance, thanks to subtle plays of cuts and settings. This year, the Maison also gives a special place of honour to its secret watch tradition. Dating from the 1920s, these timepieces surprise and appeal for their light-hearted aspects: chatelaines that take on the appearance of jewels, flowers and stone-studded leaves that rise to reveal a dial. These elegant and inventive pieces enabled their wearers to tell the time with discretion, in accordance with the customs of the era. Today, the Maison breathes new life into this game of hide and seek and offers a secret space to each second. Sliding open an invisible drawer or raising a precious tassel evoke a personal sense of time, alive with intimate memories.
[Image: Pompon transformable long necklace with detachable watches].
These Pompon transformable long necklace with detachable watches come in pink gold and white gold. There are round diamonds, round pink sapphires, red spinels, white cultured pearls, coral, white mother-of-pearl,onyx, black spinels, white cultured pearls and quartz movement.
[Image: Rubis Secret bracelet watch in white gold, diamonds, pink gold, 115 oval-cut rubies for 151.25 carats].
In 2006, Van Cleef & Arpels celebrated its centenary with an innovative watch, on which time flows by in harmony with the seasons. Bearing a new vision of watchmaking, the Poetic Complications collection was born. Each creation associates technical prowess, creative research and a sense of wonder. Time is measured over the course of a day, a night or a ballet of butterflies. Besides their technical mastery, these intricate mechanisms offer precious moments of emotion that form an integral part of Van Cleef & Arpels’ imagination.
[Image: Lady Jour des Fleurs and Lady Nuit des Papillons watches]
Lady Jour des Fleurs comes in white gold and diamonds, bezel set with diamonds, crown set with one pink sapphire. The dial is in white gold, yellow gold, diamonds, yellow and pink sapphires, tsavorite and spessartite garnets, spinels, miniature painting. There is a shiny wine-red alligator strap, white gold pin buckle set with diamonds and High Jewellery bracelet set with diamonds, yellow and pink sapphires, tsavorite and spessartite garnets.
Lady Nuit des Papillons watches comes in white gold and diamonds, bezel set with diamonds, crown set with one sapphire. The dial is in white gold, round and rose-cut diamonds, sapphires, miniature painting. There is a shiny navy blue alligator strap, white gold pin buckle set with diamonds and High Jewellery bracelet set with diamonds and sapphires.
[Image: Lady Arpels Jour Nuit Fée Ondine watch]
Lady Arpels Jour Nuit Fée Ondine watch comes in white gold and diamonds, bezel set with diamonds and crown set with one diamond. The dial comes in mother-of-pearl, diamonds, yellow and pink sapphires, spessartite and tsavorite garnets, miniature painting, plique-à-jour and champlevé enamel. It comes in a shiny blue alligator strap, white gold pin buckle set with diamonds.
[Image: Lady Arpels Ronde des Papillons watch].
Lady Arpels Ronde des Papillons is available in white gold, bezel set with diamonds, crown set with one diamond. The dial is in mother-of-pearl, engraved gold, miniature painting. The shiny charcoal grey alligator strap also has a white gold pin buckle set with diamonds.
Finally, Midnight Nuit Lumineuse watch is in white gold. The dial is in aventurine glass, white gold, miniature painting and diamonds. It has a black alligator strap and white gold pin buckle.
[Image: Midnight Nuit Lumineuse watch].
