
A new crown was needed and the honorable task of making it would fall to one of the world’s most prestigious jewelers, Van Cleef and Arpels. This incredible honor was bestowed in 1966 when Pierre Arpels learned that out of the fifty proposals for the design of the imperial crown submitted by the greatest jewelers of the time, the Iranian government had chosen a Van Cleef & Arpels drawing. This event marked one of the most prestigious special orders in Maison’s history.