Lady Lucky Spring Butterfly: spring in motion

The Poetic Complications® collection, turning the passing of time into an enchanting spectacle, is joined by a new watch named Lady Lucky Spring Butterfly.

Lady Lucky Spring butterfly watch, 18K yellow gold, enamel, white mother-of-pearl, diamonds, self-winding mechanical movement equipped with a retrograde minutes and jumping hours mechanism. Poetic Complications® collection, Van Cleef & Arpels.
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The elegant bouquet creates a striking contrast with the dial’s background, crafted in guilloché white mother-of-pearl and painted in a deep blue hue

Lady Lucky Spring butterfly watch, 18K yellow gold, enamel, white mother-of-pearl, diamonds, self-winding mechanical movement equipped with a retrograde minutes and jumping hours mechanism. Lucky Spring earrings, 18K yellow gold, white mother-of-pearl, Perlée diamonds duo ring, 18K yellow gold, diamonds and  Perlée diamonds ring, 1 row, 18K yellow gold, diamonds. Poetic Complications®, Lucky Spring® and Perlée® collections, Van Cleef & Arpels.
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As the minutes tick by, an open-winged butterfly gradually advances towards its closed-winged alter ego

 

The Lady Lucky Spring Butterfly watch features three plum blossoms in white mother-of-pearl, meticulously positioned on multiple levels to create an impression of volume and relief. The motifs are complemented by yellow gold, worked in various ways: beaded around each flower, polished on the branches, and textured on the leaves. Edged with a beaded contour, the aperture shaped like a lily-of-the-valley bud reveals a disk, also in white mother-of-pearl, displaying the time. The interplay of lines allows light to circulate freely, enhancing the reflections of this organic material. Blue-hued butterflies punctuate the scene with a bright touch of color.

Polishing the gold branch, Van Cleef & Arpels.

Polishing the gold branch

Positioning the gold branch, Van Cleef & Arpels.

Positioning the gold branch

Engraving the case back, Van Cleef & Arpels.

Caseback engraving

Positioning the oscillating weight, Van Cleef & Arpels.

Positioning the oscillating weight

Positioning the jumping hours disc, Van Cleef & Arpels.

Positioning the jumping hours disc

This bucolic decor is brought to life by a self-winding mechanical movement featuring a retrograde minutes display and jumping hours. The story told on the dial continues on the back of the watch. The engraving sketches delicate foliage on the gold components, while the enamel decal adorns the sapphire glass with floral motifs. Beneath, the oscillating weight is revealed and features a radiating guilloché effect adorned with a butterfly in miniature painting. Testament to mechanical expertise and métiers d’art, the watch is entirely assembled in the Van Cleef & Arpels Watchmaking Workshops in Geneva.