The grace of ballerinas
Van Cleef & Arpels wishes you a glimmering new year. Our ballerinas dance under a starry sky to celebrate, join their ballet with a joyful step towards 2024.
With a penchant for beauty and harmony to complement its perpetual quest for excellence, over the decades Van Cleef & Arpels has drawn boundless inspiration from the world of dance. With each arabesque, the art of ballet imparts an aura of poetry and a graceful flair into the Maison’s High Jewelry pieces and feminine figures – always delicate and captured in motion.
A tutu flutters in the spotlight as the New Year takes the stage
Work on the ballerina’s jewelry structure
Jewelry work, assembling ballerina's underskirt
Setting an emerald on the ballerina
Setting a diamond on the ballerina
Lift the curtain on Lady Arpels Ballerine Musicale
Lady Arpels Ballerines Musicales creations blend music and motion, bringing to life a veritable experience of sight and sound. To reflect the full wonder of ballet, Van Cleef & Arpels recreated the three-dimensional tableau of an actual theater stage.
A diamond-set upper dial, representing a sparkling chandelier and lavish curtains, illuminates the dial, awash in color thanks to the fine crafts dear to the Maison: sculpted, engraved and hand-painted draperies reveal ethereal ballerinas in miniature painting.
The clockwork dance
Powerful symbols of joy and hope, fairies and ballerinas are an enduring tradition at Van Cleef & Arpels. Touched with ethereal grace, these emblematic feminine figures evoke the Maison’s enchanting world.
Within a 33-mm case, the Lady Danse watch features a dancer performing a joyful step before a background of graphic lines. The Lady Danse Duo watch features a dance troupe amid a decor striking for its relief and perspective. The story continues on the back of the watches with an engraved tableau echoing their dials.
A ballerina adorned with rubies lights up the dial of the Lady Danse watch
A miniature tableau inspired by Broadway musicals enlivens the dial of the Lady Danse Duo watch
A long-standing ballet
The Maison’s first ballerina clips were created in the early 1940s, soon becoming one of Van Cleef & Arpels’ signature designs.
Their aerial attitudes and the beauty of their attire immediately charmed collectors. Featuring a gold or rose-cut diamond face complemented by a precious head ornament, dancers are depicted with point shoes and a tutu made of diamonds or colored stones that seems to flow, echoing their movements.
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