On 12 November 2017, in Geneva, Sotheby’s auctioned the one-of-a-kind IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Annual Calendar Edition “Le Petit Prince”, which was sold for CHF 38,000. A portion of the proceeds of this auction will benefit the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation, in order to boost its expansion into the USA and reach its goal of offering training and educational projects to even more young people throughout the world.
This auction in Geneva was the fifth IWC has carried out in cooperation with Sotheby’s Geneva. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation, helping it to establish itself on the North American continent. It is no coincidence that the foundation is aiming to cross the Atlantic. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry himself had a strong connection to America: he flew a Lockheed P-38 Lightning on multiple occasions and wrote his story “The Little Prince” in New York.
It’s a little-known actuality that before the Ingenieur was launched in 1955 Iwc Watches Uae Replica had produced some army pilot sequences with soft-iron cages so as to protect the movements from the stronger magnetic fields present in the ever-more created and better-equipped cockpits of their 1940s. Ditching the pilot watch DNA the IWC Ingenieur was a handsome-looking dress watch designed for – you guessed – engineers compared to pilots. The collection received its most notable overhaul in 1976 when Gerald Genta redesigned it — but that’s a different story.All this was to mention that things are moving back to basics in the exact same way as we found with the old-new Da Vinci (hands-on): the IWC Ingenieur Automatic 40mm, closest to the original among the four new models, provides a fantastic conservative size (most especially the exact same as a Rolex Submariner) having an “IWC grade 35111” beating inside. The 35111 is a base Sellita SW300 which then is an ETA 2892 clone, which will help explain some of the price gap between the Ingenieur Automatic and the Submariner. It runs in 4Hz and offers 42 hours of power reserve, making sure it won’t be a top choice for those searching for a more contemporary motion within this price segment.The IWC Ingenieur Chronograph is basically the non-limited re-release of last season’s limited editions — references IW380802, IW380801, and IW380803 as noticed previously. They’re a small 42mm wide, clad in stainless steel or 18k red gold and game what’s an ample 120m depth score. Interior is what we’re told to be an all-new motion called the IWC Caliber 69375.