Van Cleef & Arpels Lady Arpels & Midnight Zodiac Lumineux Watches

As the undisputed king of "Poetic complications," Van Cleef & Arpels is one of only a handful of watchmaking companies that could get away with the extravagant creativity of the Lady Arpels and Midnight Zodiac Lumineux Watches This has long been the particular specialty of Van Cleef & Arpels, with its ongoing procession of fairies, butterflies, romantic narratives, and celestial spectacles The Van Cleef & Arpels Lumineux watches, like all of the brand's Poetic pieces, combine metiers and mechanics to achieve what is defined at the high end of watchmaking as poetic.

The Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight Zodiac Lumineux is a set of 12 men's watches, each representing a sign of the zodiac and 42mm 18k white gold cases The watches contain the automatic caliber Valfleurier Q020, with a "Light-on-demand" module, which uses the principle of piezoelectricity to power tiny LED lights behind the blue enamel dots The Van Cleef & Arpels Lady Arpels Zodiac Lumineux employs the same concept of backlit enamel dots that form a constellation, but the dials are embellished with elaborate depictions of the signs of the zodiac, using colored enameling as well as colored gemstones and diamonds.

The case of the Van Cleef & Arpels Lady Arpels Zodiac Lumineux series is 38mm, with diamonds on the bezel and case side. . Source