Every year, Van Cleef & Arpels celebrates spring with the best of life. In 2021, the Family created the Lucky Spring collection, which greets this season of renewal in Vientiane with colorful and colorful patterns. Two bracelets recreate the delightful ladybugs that kick off the collection. Made from rose gold, carnelian chalcedony and onyx, Ladybugs subtly recreate the family's cherished nature.
Lucky Spring bracelet with fluttering and winged ladybugs, rose gold, carnelian chalcedony and onyx
Dazzling ladybugs adorn the wrists
Van Cleef & Arpels infuses the family's association with nature, bringing the ladybugs in the Lucky Spring collection lifelike dynamics. This heralds the return of the lovely creatures of spring to the earth, and it is different on each bracelet
Posture, or put away thin wings; or flapping wings to fly.
Lucky Spring bracelet wearing picture
Each themed motif is about two centimeters, and the rounded design and dazzling colors are intoxicating, and the vivid colors echo the family's positive and optimistic belief and vision for life. The dazzling red ladybug is inlaid with carnelian chalcedony, which contrasts sharply with its black onyx head.
Precious companion
Patterned with decorative gemstones, a pair of artisans' skillful hands are set in rose gold bead trims, which complement the unique polished yellow K gold beads on the wings of ladybugs. Cast in mirror-polished rose gold, the winged ladybug body arches slightly, emitting a moving halo. The front and back sides of each pattern present a consistent picture, and the family's exquisite skills make the bracelet beautiful from any angle, which shows the meticulousness of the details.
Lucky Spring bracelet with winged ladybugs, rose gold, carnelian and onyx
Lucky Spring bracelet with fluttering wings of ladybirds, rose gold, carnelian chalcedony and onyx
Lively material
Van Cleef & Arpels carefully selects and matches lively materials to plate the bracelet with a unique lively beauty. Gemologists screen for carnelian chalcedony with a bright, consistent, orange-red hue, while onyx takes on its black hues and deep luster.
Two decorative gemstones combine soft rose gold to interweave poetic colours that bring the ladybugs to life and elegance.
Jewelry craftsmanship – adjusting the carnelian pattern
Exquisite craftsmanship
The meticulousness and meticulous attention to detail underpin the production process underscores Van Cleef & Arpels' virtuosity. The work comes to life through a number of complex processes, including the selection and matching of gemstones, gem cutting, jewelry craftsmanship, setting and polishing.
Decorative gemstones are carefully cut and polished to reveal a vibrant glow. Jewelry craftsmen then use yellow K gold to create a gold bead base symbolizing the family, and hand shape the delicate gold beads one by one, placing the gemstones in the yellow K gold setting, and then firmly fixed with the hidden claws under the round bead trim. Finally, the work is polished and polished to highlight its harmonious and harmonious composition.
Carnelian diagram with prong setting and final polishing process
Ladybug – Van Cleef & Arpels symbol of luck
The family has loved nature since its inception. In the animal kingdom, the representatives of lucky beings all play an important role and are close companions of human beings in daily life. With its unique shape and flexible spots, ladybugs leave a dancing figure on the Saga's charm bracelet and joyful brooch. The first ladybug charm was introduced in the 1930s and has undergone a 20-year metamorphosis to become a jewel adorning collars, dresses and hats. The colour of its wings varies depending on the material used, which includes coral, cultured pearls and enamel.
Until 2000, ladybugs inhabited the Family's jewelry, watches and even fine jewelry, blooming the magnificent colors of precious gemstones or insidious rubies.
Ladybug Pendant Work Record Card, 1933; Van Cleef & Arpels Collection
Secret de Coccinelle, 2018; yellow gold, rose gold, white gold, traditional concealed vaulted rubies, emeralds, tsavorite garnets, onyx, diamonds, hand-wound mechanical movements; a one-of-a-kind creation