In the 2010s the company added a new layer of complexity to the objects: movement. Van Cleef partnered with expert craftsman François Junod to create a fanciful tabletop-size high-jewelry automaton. This first effort depicted a fairy—an emblem of the maison—relaxing on a glossy lily pad near a closed water lily. On demand, the lily pad ripples, the flower opens, revealing a shimmering butterfly flapping its wings, and the fairy raises her head and moves to watch it flitting about.