Van Cleef & Arpels Zip Necklace (coral & chrysoprase)

Maker: Van Cleef & Arpels
Year: sold 2026
Rank: 28 of 100
Identifier: Coral, chrysoprase and diamond functional Zip necklace-bracelet, 18k gold

Van Cleef & Arpels Zip Necklace (coral & chrysoprase)

Realized at auction: $793,303, dated 2026-05-11. This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

The Zip - a working zipper converting necklace to bracelet - is VCA's most legendary technical invention.

Coral, chrysoprase and diamond functional Zip necklace-bracelet, 18k gold

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure: $793,303
Kind: Realized at auction
Date: 2026-05-11

A realized auction price is what a buyer actually paid on the date shown, including the buyer's premium where the sale reported it. It is the strongest kind of reference price, and it is a record of one sale of one object on one day, not a promise of what the next example will bring.

By reference price, Van Cleef & Arpels Zip Necklace (coral & chrysoprase) is number 32 of 99 in the jewelry entries of the FLOAT 100. 42 of those 99 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (28 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.

How this is made

The figure: One reference price, shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not: A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder: Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
Archive: 2026-08-08

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