Van Cleef & Arpels turns its gaze to the heavens and gives pride of place to a captivating chapter in its watchmaking history: Poetic Astronomy®. In keeping with one of the Maison’s cherished sources of inspiration, planets and constellations appear in enchanting guise to evoke voyages and dreams.

With the Midnight Planétarium™ Poetic Complication® timepiece, the Maison achieved its dream of reducing the scale of the heavens to the dimensions of a wristwatch. Six years after the launch of the Lady Arpels™ Day and Night model, it once again celebrates celestial orbits by drawing inspiration from the historic tradition of planetariums, much in vogue in the 18th century.