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VAN CLEEF & ARPELS. A FINE LADY’S 18K WHITE GOLD AND DIAMOND-SET WRISTWATCH WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND ROTATING ENAMEL DIAL
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VAN CLEEF & ARPELS. A FINE LADY’S 18K WHITE GOLD AND DIAMOND-SET WRISTWATCH WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND ROTATING ENAMEL DIAL

SIGNED VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, THE LADY ARPELS CENTENARY SEASONS MODEL, NO. 85, CASE NO. HH 3617, CIRCA 2006

Closed29 May 2017

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VAN CLEEF & ARPELS. A FINE LADY’S 18K WHITE GOLD AND DIAMOND-SET WRISTWATCH WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND ROTATING ENAMEL DIAL
SIGNED VAN CLEEF & ARPELS, THE LADY ARPELS CENTENARY SEASONS MODEL, NO. 85, CASE NO. HH 3617, CIRCA 2006
MOVEMENT: Manual
DIAL: Hand-painted enamel dial depicting changing seasons with floral, butterfly, dragonfly and snowflake motifs rotating over a cycle of 365 days, revealed beneath a fixed mother-of-pearl cloud-form sector adorning the lower half of the dial
CASE: 18k white gold, diamond bezel, crown, bar lugs and terminals, glazed display snap on back revealing calendar with setting crown, 36 mm diam.
STRAP/BUCKLE: Van Cleef & Arpels satin strap, 18k white gold and pavé-set diamond Van Cleef & Arpels buckle


Specialist note

To celebrate Van Cleef & Arpels’ Centenary in 2006, the celebrated jeweller created the Poetic Complications series to showcase the technical prowess of their watchmakers as well as the excellent savoir-faire of their craftsmen. These exquisite timepieces invites the wearer to view time in a new and wondrous perspective of scenes enlivened with the grace of nature or dainty fairies or ballerinas. To achieve this poetic interpretation of time, a highly complicated movement “the Quantième de Saison” was exclusively developed for Van Cleef & Arpels. Coupled with painstakingly hand-painted enamelled disks adorned with an enchanting garden evolving with Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer or a magical world of fairies, this new technical expertise turns the disk imperceptibly on a 365 day cycle, thus allowing the wearer to discover gradually a new enchanting landscape every day.