French luxurious jewelry and watchmaking model Van Cleef & Arpels payed a heat tribute to Paris – the town of the maison’s beginning – throughout the 2025 version of Watches and Wonders in Geneva.

The tribute consists of the corporate enjoying host to valuable encounters with the Pont des Amoureux assortment, welcoming new color harmonies and writing one other chapter with the Girl Arpels Bal des Amoureux Automate watch and bejewelled watches which have fun the custom of jewels that inform time so pricey to the maison.

“This occasion is at all times a possibility for us to inform our story and to showcase our Poetic Issues, such because the Pont des Amoureux assortment,” stated Catherine Rénier, President and CEO of Van Cleef & Arpels (VC&A).

“These watches, created in 2010 and reinvented in a number of color variations, have develop into a signature of the maison over time. They embody the Poetry of Time pricey to Van Cleef & Arpels, its mechanical experience and its attachment to métiers d’artwork, whereas expressing certainly one of its founding sources of inspiration: love.”

A FLOURISHING STORY

In 2010, VC&A unveiled the Pont des Amoureux watch, the primary Poetic Issues piece to win a prize on the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (an occasion that highlights and rewards the excellence of up to date timepieces that contribute to the worldwide affect of watchmaking and its expertise).

Ever since, the gathering has advised the story of a girl and a person who, certain by affection, meet on a bridge in Paris. Respectively marking the hours and minutes with a double retrograde motion, the 2 lovers transfer towards one another at midday and midnight. This 12 months, 4 new watches with valuable bracelets enrich the story, revealing the couple in panorama scenes evoking completely different moments of the day. The dials mirror the nuances of daybreak, morning, nightfall and moonlight.

A FRESH CHAPTER

Persevering with the story initiated with the Pont des Amoureux watch, Van Cleef & Arpels launched a brand new rendezvous. The Girl Arpels Bal des Amoureux Automate watch units the scene for the couple’s tryst in an all-new décor.

This setting recreates the environment and allure of a guinguette, an open-air dance café typical of Paris’ suburbs and surrounding areas well-liked within the nineteenth century. An automaton motion brings the lovers nearer collectively at midday and midnight. This tender scene could be recreated on demand with the push of a button on the watch case. The hours and minutes are indicated by two stars set in movement by a double retrograde system, a signature characteristic of the gathering. Inside the dial, depth results are multiplied by 5 completely different planes.

A NEW MOVEMENT

The enchantment of the Girl Arpels Bal des Amoureux Automate is made attainable by the meticulous work of Van Cleef & Arpels’ watchmaking specialists in Geneva. After 4 years of analysis and growth, they’ve created an automaton motion new to the maison’s collections.

When the animation begins, every character involves life. They strategy each other, leaning in whereas their linked arms decrease realistically, thanks to 3 articulations. Consultants handled the fluidity of the figures’ actions with specific care. Designed in very small dimensions to suit right into a slim case.

JEWELS THAT TELL TIME

On the crossroads of Watchmaking and Excessive Jewelry, Van Cleef & Arpels continues to discover its inventive universe with jewels that inform the time. The creations mix the discreet studying of time with the excellence of jewellery-making savoir-faire. Whereas the ingenuity of invisible clasps and meeting methods brings flexibility and magnificence to the bracelets, the stones are meticulously chosen and matched in line with exacting high quality standards.

The Cadenas watch combines a yellow gold bracelet with a case paved in snow-set diamonds and enhanced by a row of princess-cut sapphires. This radiant mixture of colors is repeated on the clasp, adorned with a line of sq. sapphires. The piece’s white gold dial can be adorned with the brilliance of diamonds.

Within the Ruban Mystérieux watch, the steel is rendered discreet beneath the brilliance of the diamonds because of the stones’ snow-set association. It additionally fades away in favour of the wealthy nuances of the sapphires and emeralds held in place by VC&A’s Thriller Set approach.

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