Van Cleef & Arpels
4.7 / 5Bahnhofstrasse 11 · established 1906
Van Cleef & Arpels trades from Bahnhofstrasse 11, the Paris house that turned gem-setting into a patented craft. Its Mystery Set, registered in 1933, holds stones on hidden rails so no metal claws show, and that obsession with how a stone is held carries through to the bridal solitaires. The maison started on Place Vendome in 1906.