Born from the 1895 marriage of Estelle Arpels and Alfred Van Cleef, the house of Van Cleef & Arpels was established in 1906 at Paris’s legendary Place Vendôme. A pinnacle of French high craftsmanship and poetic imagination, the maison is celebrated for bringing movement, fairy-tale romance, and technical brilliance to life. From groundbreaking structural innovations to timeless emblems of luck and enchantment, every creation reflects an enduring legacy of rare gemstone mastery, aristocratic elegance, and supreme global prestige.