Van Cleef & Arpels conception is rooted in passion and marriage, that of Estelle Arpels and Alfred Van Cleef. Yet their union was not only one of love but also of profession, as Estelle Arpels was the daughter of a dealer in precious stones and her husband, the son of a lapidary. As a result, the two faced a bejeweled destiny, bearing timepieces and jewelry of utmost delicacy and elegance.Debuted in 2022, the Lady Arpels Heures Florales watch embodies this affection and expertise at the brand's foundation. Featuring a complex mechanism that, at the turn of every hour, opens and closes the flowers, Van Cleef & Arpels replace numerical representation of time and instead chooses to represent its passing through the beautiful cycles of nature. This is just one of the many wonders found in Van Cleef & Arpels collection of watches, however. Channeling the poetry of time, the brand has also conceived the cobra-textured Cadenas watch with a bending human figure, the astronomical Midnight Planetarium Watch and the Alhambra models that flaunt the brand's classic clover motif.