FLOAT 100 · Jewelry · No. 57
VCA Lucky Spring Bracelet, 5 Motifs (rose gold)
A ladybug in carnelian and onyx, plum blossoms in mother-of-pearl, all hung from a fine rose gold chain: Van Cleef & Arpels' Lucky Spring bracelet turns a season into a good-luck charm you can wear every day.
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Create a free account- What it is
- Lucky Spring bracelet, 5 motifs
- Reference
- VCARP7RR00
- Maker
- Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris
- Materials
- 18K rose gold, white mother-of-pearl, carnelian, onyx
- Stones
- 3 mother-of-pearl, 1 carnelian and 1 onyx, per the maker's listing
- Collection
- Lucky Spring, introduced in 2021
- Motifs in the collection
- Ladybug, plum blossom, lily-of-the-valley bud and foliage; a butterfly joined in 2026
- US retail
- $6,050 on the maker's US site, October 2026
- One pre-owned example
- 11.30 grams, 7 1/4 inches, signed VCA with serial number
Spring as a lucky charm
Van Cleef & Arpels introduced the Lucky Spring collection in 2021. The house describes it as a tribute to spring and a reflection of its 'positive vision of life,' evoking 'the awakening of flora and fauna in a surge of renewal.' Its cast of motifs is small and specific: a ladybug, plum blossoms, lily-of-the-valley buds and delicate foliage.
Each motif carries a meaning. One account of the collection notes that the plum blossom, one of the first flowers to open in winter, stands for resilience and is rendered with five rounded petals in mother-of-pearl, while the ladybug is described as the house's quintessential symbol of luck. The original palette was rose gold, white mother-of-pearl, black onyx and red carnelian.
Luck has run through the house's work for decades, from its Alhambra motif onward. Lucky Spring applies the same idea to a spring garden. The house itself was founded in Paris in 1896 by the diamond-cutter Alfred Van Cleef and his father-in-law, Salomon Arpels, and opened its Place Vendome boutique in 1906.
How it is made
Lucky Spring pieces start with lost-wax casting: the motifs are sculpted, cast, and then refined by hand, including the golden beads, prong settings and polished surfaces. On the pendants, bracelets and long necklaces, each motif is finished identically on both sides, so it looks right however it turns on the chain.
The house says the intensity of the ornamental stones is enhanced by its signature double-beaded gold contour. In the rose gold pieces, the ladybug reappears as a pendant on bracelets and necklaces, its mirror-polished rose gold body catching the light; on rings and clips it is shown in black onyx and red carnelian beside the mother-of-pearl blossoms.
For its 2025 spring presentation the house again worked with the French designer Alexandre Benjamin Navet, who painted the house's garden as a backdrop for the pieces.
Identifying the five-motif bracelet
The bracelet tracked here is reference VCARP7RR00: a rose gold chain with five motifs. The maker's listing describes it as '18K rose gold, white mother-of-pearl, carnelian, onyx' and counts five stones: three of mother-of-pearl, one of carnelian and one of onyx.
It sits in a family of rose gold pieces. In October 2026 the US site offered a single-motif bracelet with a closed-wing ladybug for $3,100, an open-wing ladybug bracelet for $3,600, a clip for $8,650 and a 15-motif long necklace for $20,500. Across the whole line it listed 15 creations, from $2,930 to $22,100.
A pre-owned example offered in New York was described as signed VCA with a serial number, weighing 11.30 grams in total and measuring 7 1/4 inches long, and came with its original signed box and receipt. A serial number, the signature and the double-beaded gold edges are the details to check on any example.
A butterfly arrives
Until 2026 Lucky Spring was a rose gold collection. That year the house added five creations in yellow gold built around a new butterfly motif: a long necklace, a five-motif bracelet, a clip, a Between the Finger ring and a pair of earrings. Blue agate forms the butterfly's upper wings and green agate the foliage, with lapis lazuli and white mother-of-pearl.
The butterfly is not part of the rose gold bracelet tracked here, which keeps the original ladybug, blossom and leaf vocabulary. Buyers comparing listings should match the metal and stones: the yellow gold Lucky Spring Butterfly bracelet is a different piece.
Accounts differ on how long butterflies have been part of the house's work. The house says they have inspired it since 1906; one 2026 magazine account dates the butterfly in its work to 1960.
Prices
In October 2026 the maker's US site listed the five-motif rose gold bracelet at $6,050.
On the secondary market, one pre-owned example was listed in New York at an asking price of $5,000 and was marked no longer available. No realized auction result for this reference was found in the sources reviewed, so there is no confirmed resale figure to report.
The numbers
- Carat weight
- Not published; no diamonds
- Stones
- 3 white mother-of-pearl, 1 carnelian, 1 onyx
- Color and clarity grade
- Not applicable (ornamental stones)
- Origin mine
- Not published
- Cutter
- Not published; motifs lost-wax cast and hand-finished by Van Cleef & Arpels
- Weight and length
- 11.30 grams, 7 1/4 inches (one pre-owned example)
Timeline
Alfred Van Cleef and Salomon Arpels found Van Cleef & Arpels in Paris.
The house opens its first boutique at 22 Place Vendome; it dates its butterfly motifs to the same year.
Richemont acquires Van Cleef & Arpels.
The Lucky Spring collection is introduced in rose gold, mother-of-pearl, onyx and carnelian.
The house again works with designer Alexandre Benjamin Navet on its Lucky Spring presentation.
Five yellow gold creations with a new butterfly motif join the collection.
The maker's US site lists the five-motif rose gold bracelet at $6,050.
The world in 2021
Supporters of President Donald Trump attack the US Capitol.
The COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative delivers its first doses, in Ghana.
The container ship Ever Given runs aground in the Suez Canal, disrupting world trade until it is freed on March 29.
The postponed 2020 Summer Olympics open in Tokyo.
The Taliban capture Kabul and the Afghan government surrenders.
The James Webb Space Telescope is launched.
Price record
| Date | Price | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | $6,050 | Asking price, not a saleUS boutique price on the maker's site. |
| Oct 2026 | $5,000 | Asking price, not a salePre-owned example listed in New York, marked not available; an ask, not a sale. Listing date not shown. |
This is an asking price, not a sale. It is what a seller wanted on the date shown. Asking prices often sit above what buyers pay, but an ask is not a ceiling: a sale can land on either side of it. It is not a value.
By reference price, VCA Lucky Spring Bracelet, 5 Motifs (rose gold) is number 83 of 100 in the jewelry entries of the FLOAT 100. 44 of those 100 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 (57 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.
Did you know
- The Lucky Spring collection is only five years old: it was introduced in 2021.
- On the bracelets and long necklaces, each motif is finished the same on both sides, so it never shows a 'back.'
- The plum blossom was chosen because it is one of the first flowers to open in winter.
- Until 2026 there were no butterflies in Lucky Spring; they arrived that year in yellow gold with blue agate wings.
- The house dates its love of butterflies to 1906, the year it opened on Place Vendome.
How this page 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. An asking price, an estimate and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- The story
- Researched from published records and checked fact by fact. Updated Oct 1, 2026.
- Archive
- Oct 5, 2026