Watches Extraordinary Dials

For the Extraordinary Dials™ collection, enamellers, engravers, lapidaries, miniature painters and stone-setters apply their artistry alongside watchmakers. Van Cleef & Arpels brings this craftsmanship to life, imparting a moment of poetry into each creation.

Lady Retrouvailles Célestes watch, rose gold, white gold, pink sapphires, white mother-of-pearl, diamonds, enamel, miniature painting, manual-winding mechanical movement. Extraordinary dials collection, Van Cleef & Arpels.
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Lady Rencontre Céleste and Lady Retrouvailles Célestes watches. Extraordinary dials collection, Van Cleef & Arpels.
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A founding source of inspiration for the Maison, love sets the joyous cadence of the Poetry of Time®, offering a vision of watchmaking suffused with dreams and emotion. This year, the poignant potency of this theme is providing Van Cleef & Arpels with the elan for a duet of Extraordinary Dials: Lady Rencontre Céleste and Lady Retrouvailles Célestes.

 

Through consummate mastery of artistic crafts, these new creations tell the story of a legendary couple: Vega and Altair—also known as Niulang and Zhinu. In harmonious dialogue, the watches express the emotion of the lovers' encounter and the elation of their reunion. 

Lady Rencontre Céleste watch, white gold, sapphires, white mother-of-pearl, diamonds, enamel, miniature painting, manual-winding mechanical movement. Extraordinary dials collection, Van Cleef & Arpels.
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Applying miniature painting on the setting beads, Van Cleef & Arpels.
Applying plique-à-jour enamel on the robe, Van Cleef & Arpels.
Verifying the position of the rose-cut diamond, Van Cleef & Arpels.
Assembling the setting in enamel cloud on the dial, Van Cleef & Arpels.

A medley of blue, the Lady Rencontre Céleste watch portrays the couple, hands clasped, framed by a star-studded sky. Their white gold silhouette appears behind sparkling clouds adorned with diamonds set in plique-à-jour enamel. Their faces, suggested by rose-cut diamonds, are manifestly engrossed in mutual contemplation.

 

The Lady Retrouvailles Célestes watch also brings watchmaking savoir-faire to life in gently glittering tones of pink and mauve. The background of the dial, fashioned in champlevé enamel, hints at the emotions harbored by the two characters standing before a crescent of mauve sapphires. Arms outstretched in longing, they seem to be awaiting their reunion across an aerial bridge of sculpted white gold birds.

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