IWC Schaffhausen continues its partnership with the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation, founded by the family of the famed French pilot and author of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), with the release of a new limited edition timepiece commemorating Saint Exupéry’s nonstop crossing of the Atlantic in 1939. Here’s the story behind the Pilot’s Watch Timezoner Chronograph Edition “80 Years Flight to New York” edition, and a brief description of the watch’s considerable attributes.
The use of red for ‘Paris” and “New York” on the world-time city ring commemorates the historic 1939 flight.
The watch is equipped with IWC’s patented, easy-to-use world-time function, in which the wearer can quickly and easily re-set the time, along with the date and 24-hour hand, in a single turn of the bezel. One simply presses the city-ring bezel down, turns it so the city representing the desired time zone is at 12 o?clock, and releases. Both the hour hand and the small, red-tipped 24-hour hand will move synchronously with the turning of the bezel, and the date display will also change accordingly, either forward or backward. Furthermore, the 24-hour hand, which indicates the time on an inner ring, ensures that the wearer always will know whether it is day or night in his selected time zone. The advance of the minute hand, and all the watch?s other functions, are unaffected while changing time zones. The automatic move...