Van Cleef & Arpels

Van Cleef & Arpels is a French jewelry house, currently one of the Jewellery Maisons of Richemont.

Overview

Van Cleef & Arpels is a well-known jeweller at the Place Vendôme in Paris, founded in 1906. Although the company had produced branded watches as early as 1923, it was the 1949 creation of a rounded case with a single central lug that established the company as a creator of watch designs.

Richemont announced on May 12, 1999 that it had acquired a controlling interest in Van Cleef & Arpels. In 2000, Van Cleef & Arpels was absorbed into Richemont, where it would be paired with Jaeger-LeCoultre as a supplier of movements. Richemont acquired the final shares of the company in 2003.

Awards

Van Cleef & Arpels has won 9 awards at the prestigious Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève as of 2020:

• Ladies' Watch Prize (tie): Secret 2005
• Ladies' Watch Prize: Le Pont des Amoureux 2010
• Jewellery and Artistic Crafts Watch Prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève for the Lady Arpels Paysage Polaire 2011
• Ladies’ Complications Watch Prize: Lady Arpels Ballerine Enchantée 2013
• Ladies’ High-Mech Watch Prize: Lady Arpels Papillon Automate 2017
• Ladies' Complication Watch Prize: Lady Arpels Planétarium 2018
• Jewellery Watch Prize: Secret de Coccinelle 2018
• Jewellery Watch Prize: Frivole Secrète watch 2020
• Artistic Crafts Watch Prize: Lady Arpels Soleil Féerique 2020

Weblinks

• Van Cleef & Arpels
• Van Cleef & Arpels (engl. Wikipedia)