JUST DANCE

To mark the Hong Kong Ballet’s debut of Jewels, performed last month as a part of Le French May, the city-wide festival of arts and culture, Van Cleef & Arpels has brought a selection of its glittering heritage Ballerina clips to the city. Created in 1967 by George Balanchine, a friend of one of the Arpels family, Jewels has long inspired the maison, which added three diamond-set watches designed around the performance’s three acts—emeralds, Rubies and Diamonds—to its Poetic Complication collection late last year.

From top: Ballerina clip, circa 1944, in yellow and white gold set with rubies, sapphires and diamonds; Ballerina clip, circa 1947, in yellow gold set with rubies and diamonds; Ballerina clip, circa 1944, in yellow gold set with rubies, sapphires and diam