Legendary couples come to life at Van Cleef & Arpels

Unlike any other watch brand, Van Cleef & Arpels does not begin its watchmaking journey with a sketch Van Cleef & Arpels has one of the largest hand-painting and enamel departments in the watch industry, with more than 20 artisans working on the ancient grisaille technique, plique-à-jour translucent enamel, and so much more While Van Cleef & Arpels President and CEO Nicolas Bos welcomed hundreds of visitors to the black-tie gala, nothing prepared us for the transformation we witnessed when we stepped inside the building, or for the wealth of scintillating high-jeweled watches that greeted us.

One room held the complicated Pont des Amoureux watches, while another emulated the city's gardens and played home to the artistic bird and flower watches A main square showcased historical watches and curiosities such as perfume-spray watches and snuffbox watches by the brand Other than the Pont des Amoureux collection, Van Cleef & Arpels has also released a series of Charms Extraordinaire creations - watches with artistic dials showing lovers in different places throughout the city - and another of Poèmes En Fleurs watches with artistic dials featuring different flowers in bloom.

Perhaps the most romantic of all are the one-of-a-kind high-jeweled secret watches that dazzlingly relate the stories of legendary couples. . Source