The grace of ballerinas
Van Cleef & Arpels wishes you a glimmering new year. Our ballerinas dance under a starry sky to celebrate, join their ballet with a joyful step towards 2024.
With a penchant for beauty and harmony to complement its perpetual quest for excellence, over the decades Van Cleef & Arpels has drawn boundless inspiration from the world of dance. With each arabesque, the art of ballet imparts an aura of poetry and a graceful flair into the Maison’s High Jewelry pieces and feminine figures – always delicate and captured in motion.
A tutu flutters in the spotlight as the New Year takes the stage
Work on the ballerina’s jewelry structure
Jewelry work, assembling ballerina's underskirt
Setting an emerald on the ballerina
Setting a diamond on the ballerina
Lady Arpels Ballerines Musicales creations blend music and motion, bringing to life a veritable experience of sight and sound. To reflect the full wonder of ballet, Van Cleef & Arpels recreated the three-dimensional tableau of an actual theater stage.
A diamond-set upper dial, representing a sparkling chandelier and lavish curtains, illuminates the dial, awash in color thanks to the fine crafts dear to the Maison: sculpted, engraved and hand-painted draperies reveal ethereal ballerinas in miniature painting.
Powerful symbols of joy and hope, fairies and ballerinas are an enduring tradition at Van Cleef & Arpels. Touched with ethereal grace, these emblematic feminine figures evoke the Maison’s enchanting world.
Within a 33-mm case, the Lady Danse watch features a dancer performing a joyful step before a background of graphic lines. The Lady Danse Duo watch features a dance troupe amid a decor striking for its relief and perspective. The story continues on the back of the watches with an engraved tableau echoing their dials.
A ballerina adorned with rubies lights up the dial of the Lady Danse watch
A miniature tableau inspired by Broadway musicals enlivens the dial of the Lady Danse Duo watch
The Maison’s first ballerina clips were created in the early 1940s, soon becoming one of Van Cleef & Arpels’ signature designs.
Their aerial attitudes and the beauty of their attire immediately charmed collectors. Featuring a gold or rose-cut diamond face complemented by a precious head ornament, dancers are depicted with point shoes and a tutu made of diamonds or colored stones that seems to flow, echoing their movements.
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