MilliOnAir | Objects of Desire
By Jewellery & Watch director Marcella Martinelli
Secret watches
For the first time, the collection’s golden beads come together in a joyful dance to create two styles of secret jewellery watches: a bracelet and a pendant, with a design never seen before in Van Cleef & Arpels’ watchmaking collection.
Inspired by the ‘’top et moi’’. jewellery style, the bracelet watches feature two different-sized motifs opposite one another on an open bangle. The larger of the delicately pivots to reveal an elegant white mother-of-pearl dial surrounded by a border of round diamonds. In keeping with the Perlee collection’s playful spirit, each of these three pieces offers a different association of colours and materials. On the first, green malachite provides a joyful contrast to the colours of coral and pink gold, while lapis lazuli complements the brilliance of diamonds and yellow gold on the second. In a luminous harmony, the third watch combines rose gold with the sparkle of diamonds.