Founded at Place Vendôme in Paris in 1906, Van Cleef & Arpels is a French high-jewelry Maison whose watchmaking combines precious materials, métiers d'art, secret-watch traditions and mechanically animated interpretations of time.
Open in The Dial AtlasThe Van Cleef & Arpels entry in The Dial Atlas currently connects 8 cataloged references across 7 families. The catalog records 1906 as its founding year and France as its associated country. The maker is organized here as a navigable set of family and exact-reference records. These counts describe the structured archive available on this site, not the brand's complete historical output.
Start with Jour Nuit (2 references), Lady Arpels Brise d’Été (1 reference), Lady Retrouvailles Célestes (1 reference), Ludo Secret (1 reference), and Midnight Heure d'ici & Heure d'ailleurs (1 reference). Each family page keeps related watches together while preserving the reference codes, production periods, variants, and imagery that distinguish one execution from another. This makes the brand page a practical index for moving from a maker-level overview to the evidence attached to an individual watch.
Use the family links below to compare catalog breadth, follow production generations, and open the interactive Atlas view. Where the source data is available, reference dossiers surface case and dial details, movements, complications, nicknames, and current or discontinued status. The archive is designed to make both celebrated models and less familiar executions discoverable through stable, ordinary links.