IWC Big Pilot's Antoine de Saint Exupery Watch, limited and numbered edition of 250 pieces, round 18kt white gold case (46.2mm diameter, 15.8mm thickness) with screw-down crown, soft-iron inner case for protection against magnetic fields up to 80,000 A/m, brown calfskin leather strap, brown dial with luminous hands and Arabic numerals, Glucydur beryllium alloy balance with high-precision adjustment cam on balance arms, central hacking seconds hand, power reserve display at 3 o'clock, date display at 6 o'clock, 42 jewel Caliber 51111 self-winding mechanical movement with 7 day power reserve, convex scratch-resistant sapphire crystal secured against displacement by drop in air pressure, water resistant to 60 meters.
The Big Pilot?s Watch Edition Antoine de Saint Exup?ry completes the limited Pilot?s Watch collection which IWC has dedicated to the man who brought passion to his work both as poet and pilot. The series pays tribute to the author?s outstanding literary oeuvre. With its-by now characteristic-tobacco brown dial, initial ?A? (for Antoine) at ?9 o?clock?, and riveted calfskin strap, this immensely popular watch is recognisable at a glance to connoisseurs and collectors as an exclusive ?Saint Ex?. It is also the largest Pilot?s Watch from Schaffhausen and requires a case measuring 46 millimetres in diameter to house the IWC-manufactured 51111 calibre with the Pellaton automatic winding system and seven-day power reserve. The back of the case is embellished with an engraving depicting Saint-Exup?ry as a military pilot. Together, the 1,149 watches in stainless White Gold, 500 in rose gold, 250 in white gold and a unique piece in platinum, which was sold for a good cause at the Sotheby?s ?Important Watches? auction in Geneva, add up to 1,900, the year of the author?s birth. The watch is accompanied by Nathalie Des Valli?re?s biography of Saint-Exup?ry, ?L?archange et l'?crivain?, produced in a special edition for IWC Schaffhausen.
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