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Éternel
Éternel
A classic vocabulary of round and step-cut diamonds, a tribute to a lasting promise. Restrained in line, impossible to ignore in light.
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Haute Joaillerie
The poetry of light, shaped by a patient hand.
A high jewellery house built where the light meets the water — collections, savoir-faire, and a salon that receives one guest at a time.
Explore the collectionsA house built where the light meets the water.
Van Tee & Arke began with a single observation: a stone is never the same twice. Held to a window above the harbour, a diamond gathers the grey of the morning, the blue of the afternoon and the gold of the last hour of light. We built the house around that changing light — choosing stones for how they live rather than how they shine in a case, and designing every piece to be read in motion, on a body, in a room.
The House Code40+
hand operations per piece
1 : 1
private advisory, always
1 / 1
every piece unique
Three things we do not compromise
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Light before ornament
A piece is designed for how it behaves as you move and as the day changes — never for how much it can show while standing still.
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The stone leads
Design begins only once the stone is chosen. The setting exists to serve it, hold it safely, and then disappear against the skin.
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One room, one guest
The salon receives a single client at a time. Nothing is shown in a hurry, and nothing is asked of you but your attention.
Four narratives about light
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Flora
Flora
Tsavorite, Paraíba and pink sapphire bloom along golden branches, catching the instant a petal is about to open.
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Astral
Astral
Elliptical orbits of deep blue and platinum, drawn from planets moving slowly across the night sky. For the quietest grand occasions.
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Lumina
Lumina
A day-to-night collection of detachable elements; diamond fringes sway with each step, turning light into a rhythm you can almost hear.
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This Season · Pièce Unique
The Morning Dew convertible necklace
A 12.06-carat cushion-cut Sri Lankan sapphire at the centre lifts off to be worn as a brooch; the chain is snow-set with 386 brilliant-cut diamonds. It was judged, as every piece is, against the harbour at first light before it left the salon.
- Centre stone
- 12.06 ct sapphire
- Accent stones
- 386 diamonds
- Material
- 18K white gold · platinum
- Craft time
- ≈ 1,240 hours
Savoir-Faire
From rough stone to light
Four stages, one pair of hands. From the first sketch to the final polish, a piece is never passed around.
Selection
A gemmologist examines every stone under 10× magnification for colour, clarity and fluorescence — one is kept in a hundred.
Drawing
The designer paints a 1:1 gouache study on grey card, fixing the direction of every ray of light before a gram of metal is cut.
Forging
The goldsmith bends, solders and files the setting by hand so it hugs the skin and all but disappears.
Setting
The setter raises tiny gold beads with a graver to hold each stone, working to a tolerance finer than a hair.
The Salon
Twenty-two floors above the harbour, in a room that changes colour with the sky.
Where every stone is finally judged — in daylight, against the water.
Our salon sits high above Victoria Harbour. Marble vitrines, flowers renewed each week, and a wall of glass that turns the whole room silver at dawn and amber at dusk. Pieces are brought to the window, not the lamp; a stone that only lives under a spotlight never leaves the bench. You are received one at a time, seated, and given the room for as long as you need it.
The stories behind the light
The first twelve drawings
We returned to the house's earliest design sketches and asked today's workshop to reinterpret one of them, stone for stone.
The journey of one Paraíba
From a Brazilian mine to the bench, tracing one neon-blue tourmaline across eight thousand kilometres and eleven months.
How they wear it
Three women of different generations describe where the same convertible necklace sits in their lives.
By Appointment
Time set aside for you
Tell us the occasion. We will prepare a selection, pour something, and give you the room for as long as you need it — with no expectation that you leave with anything at all.
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The Salon · Hong Kong
Victoria Harbour — by appointmentEnquiries
salon@vandeac.exampleHours
Tue – Sat · 11:00 – 19:00