So happy for you! You obviously deserve this and I’m sure the pieces will look amazing on you. Although, it is quite shady of VCA to “Misled” their other customers by saying they don’t produce it anymore. They could just say it’s produced but in very very small quantities and not seen often. Instead of lying and hiding from other customers who I’m sure spend a lot at VCA to.Hi wanted to share my experience of today. As explained in the VCA Discussion thread : (Post in thread 'VCA ~ Van Cleef Arpels Discussion thread!'
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/vca-van-cleef-arpels-discussion-thread.867277/post-36186659)
I went today to my boutique to see the pieces my SA told me I was offered. It is a set of a LE 20 motif and a 5 motif you are supposed to buy together … I still think you could buy only one piece but didn’t want to ask as I thought that I wanted the whole set. The Store Manager told me that if I do not buy the set and still ask for the second piece later, it will be really difficult to find same color of stone clover.
I arrived and they seemed really waiting for me 😁. I was then assisted through the boutique and installed in the private Room. They closed all the doors (they don’t do it usually at least the only time I went to this salon …). Then my SA arrived with the pieces on a plateau and I could try the pieces on. They told me they cannot show LE pieces outside in front of other people. And that if someone asked for an LE piece they are told to say « this piece isn’t produced anymore »
Any customer (and I think even VVIP) cannot buy two items if the « rare materials » in the same year. Rare materials are : turquoise, lapis, obsidian, pietersite, rock crystal. My SA told me for me ok because it will be soon 2025 😏
If you buy the pieces, you are supposed to deposit 30% of the value which was not possible for me by credit card (in 12hours I couldn’t pre charge my credit card 🤯) but still was ok as they know me for a long time.
Then we chatted and tried other pieces. At the end the Store Manager went to say hello (only second time that I see the SM in the boutique, but at events I see her every time of course). She told me that the set arrived yesterday in the boutique and they cannot put it on wait even for 24h because all the world boutique see that this piece is there and they have to get a deposit to say no to a transfer between boutiques 😱. The SM has to validate the client that an SA wants to offer a LE piece.
It was really a special experience and I am happy to share with you in case you are a bit nervous when you get the call. I felt really special today and I think in a manner the direction still uses it as a loyalty treat fur their clients. Of course it is also very teasing but I felt that everybody was happy for me today at the boutique. It is a good way to bond with your SA. I hope that every body that looks for a LE gets one one day.
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I also just felled in love with the gold dust in the stone that I saw in some clover. So beautiful and whimsical 🪄
Hello. Thanks but not sure I deserve it. I think it is a match between multiple factors : you have a lot of purchase and since > 1 year are loyal to the same boutique, your SA can get a LE piece (that means she is not on holiday when it arrives at the boutique because they have 1-2 days to sell it…) and your SA thinks of you plus the store manager validates you : so a ton of luck 🍀 is needed so that the stars ✨ align for that …
I know how you feel because I also felt that way before today. But it is the Direction that give instructions and SA only follow the rules… I think SA would of course like to sell more of LE they just don’t receive many materials.
I don’t want anybody to feel that they were lied to : if you follow this thread you know it is of course existing and that you have to wait them to choose you and not the opposite. But it can happen as we all see in this thread from time to time so 🤞🏻
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Wait, did you tell us what it is? Forgive me if you did, I am post call and kind of out of it 🙃
Anyway everybody knows so here is the only not too dark picture I got today. Thank you for asking 😂
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Gorgeous! Please post a mod shot with your lapis RdN earrings when you get a chance
Congrats and how exciting!! Looks beautiful on you. Would love to see it together with your gorgeous new RDN earrings!
Congratulations my dear @spaul on this beautiful acquisition! It truly is a magnificent set!
I love that it has the perfect amount of gold flecks in it - it’s so evocative of a midnight sky accentuated by starlight.
I’m so happy for you!
P.S. that top is the perfect outfit to pick this starry night piece!