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.
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.
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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.