"Our goal is to offer excellence in everything we do," once declared Jacques Arpels, owner of the prestigious Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry house. That they still succeed in this is demonstrated by design and mechanical excess such as the Midnight Planetarium Poetic Compilation, a watch that is actually a planetarium on your wrist.
Midnight Planetarium Poetry Compilation will leave even the loudest advocates of the latest smart watches speechless, because it is more than just a watch. For a prestigious brand Van Cleef & Arpelswas designed by a Dutch designer and astronomy enthusiast Christian van der Klaauw, and its function goes beyond simply displaying the current time. It is a truly prestigious miniature of our solar system.
It consists of six separately rotating discs, each representing the sphere of one of the six planets in our solar system. Each moves at a different speed that matches the actual speed it takes for a planet to orbit the sun: Saturn takes 29 years, Jupiter takes 12. Mars travels around the sun for 687 days, Earth 365 and Mercury 'only' 88 days . Saturn with the longest path will thus be in almost the same place for most of the watch owner's life.
The incredible composition of the watch is superb down to the last detail, as the mechanism consists of 396 components, which, of course, are entirely made of premium materials: The sun as well as the 44 mm case of the watch is made of rose gold, the planets are made of various precious stones, the dial on which 6 spheres of the planets are placed, and it is made of cut aventurine.
The actual time of day, which we forget to care about when we look at the clock, is shown by a small star comet. As if the watch wasn't special enough, the owner can also set a lucky day. Otherwise, the owner of this watch is lucky in itself to be able to afford such a watch... for it needs to be deducted more than the foreign 180,000 euros and even more for the version with diamonds.
