For the 2025 edition of Watches and Wonders, Van Cleef & Arpels pays tribute to Paris, the city of its birth. Here, it plays host to precious encounters with the Pont des Amoureux collection, welcoming new color harmonies and writing another chapter with the Lady Arpels Bal des Amoureux Automate watch.
Continuing the story initiated with the Pont des Amoureux watch, where a woman and man meet on a bridge in Paris, the Lady Arpels Bal des Amoureux Automate watch introduces a new rendezvous. The watch sets the scene for the couple’s tryst in an all-new décor. This setting recreates the atmosphere and charm of a guinguette, an open-air dance café typical of Paris’ suburbs and surrounding areas popular in the 19th century.
Illustrating the Maison’s Poetry of Time vision, two Extraordinary Objects offer to contemplate the passing of time to the rhythm of a cupid’s beating wings, or to admire a celestial ballet. Finally, bejeweled watches honor its tradition of jeweled timepieces, while automata offer a new vision – minutes pause as flowers bloom, and years swirl the stars in a cosmic dance.
