In 1935, Renée Puissant, the artistic director of Van Cleef & Arpels, envisioned transforming an ordinary padlock into one of the house’s jewelry watches.

14 December 2006 The illustrious French Jewelry House, Van Cleef & Arpels, joined forces with the King Hussein Cancer Foundation (KHCF) recently, to raise funds for cancer patients in the region, at a ...

Van Cleef & Arpels has had a presence in Vancouver for several years through a partnership with Birks, which Bernard says will continue, but he said the timing was right for an expanded offering ...

Photo: Handout Unlike many of the other watch brands you see at the annual trade show though, Van Cleef & Arpels prefers to keep its technical wizardry hidden – not a spinning tourbillon to be seen.