Van Cleef & Arpels: Lady Arpels Planétarium

Four years after unveiling the Midnight Planétarium watch, Van Cleef & Arpels is restyling this creation offering an original women’s edition… The Lady Arpels Planétarium.

This new creation differs for the automatic movement with 40 hours of power reserve, developed exclusively for the Maison, that illustrates the Sun “in pink gold” and the closest planets: Mercury “in pink mother-of-pearl”, Venus “in green enamel” and finally Earth “in turquoise”, along with its natural satellite, the Moon “in diamond”. Each heavenly body moves at its actual speed, orbiting the dial in 88 days for Mercury, 224 days for Venus and 365 days for Earth. In a key innovation for this piece, the Moon itself rotates around the Earth in 29.5 days.

The choice of planets, imbued with feminine symbolism in the case of Venus and the Moon, goes hand in hand with craftsmanship to adapt the dimensions of the timepiece to a woman’s wrist. The Lady Arpels case, 38mm in white gold and set with diamonds in the bezel and sides of the case, houses a movement redesigned for this smaller size, with an exclusive module developed in collaboration with Christiaan van der Klaauw. The dial in aventurine enriches the planetary spectacle with a shooting star in rhodium-plated gold, showing the time. On the back of the watch, two apertures display the day, month and year.

The new Lady Arpels Planétarium is a numbered edition available in two strap versions: the first with a blue glitter alligator strap to match the dial and second with a bracelet entirely set with diamonds.