More than 80 years after its initial release, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novel Le Petit Prince or The Little Prince remains as popular as ever. As one of the most active brands in the field of pilot’s watches, and knowing Saint-Exupéry’s career as an aviator, IWC has long partnered with The Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation and has created dozens of dedicated limited editions, all playing on a single theme: blue and gold. Except that now, the Schaffhausen-based brand pushes the concept even further in a bold full blue ceramic watch with gold accents, and a rather complex movement inside. Meet the new UK 1:1 perfect replica IWC Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Le Petit Prince watches.
This new and undeniably striking Le Petit Prince watch are an evolution of an existing model released in 2021, back then with an 18k Armor gold case and vintage-inspired applied Arabic numerals. This year, the brand brings something more technical, more modern and more in line with its expertise in the field of innovative materials, with a version housed in a full blue ceramic case. The imposing best online fake watches – it is named Big Pilot after all – the matte finished case measures 46.5mm in diameter and no fewer than 16.18mm in thickness. Lug-to-lug… Somewhere around 56mm. That’s not going to remain unnoticed, specifically when combined with 5N gold accents on the screw-in crown and the caseback ring. At least, the blue colour of the case is cool and unusual, and the material is both resistant and lighter than most metals.
Moving to the dial, while the blue sunray-brushed base that was used in the 2021 gold version remains, IWC has decided to give this ceramic Big Pilot Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Le Petit Prince a modern technical and more modern look, consistent with the use of ceramic for the case. This is mostly due to the classic rounded applied numerals, instead of vintage, stylised numerals. The minute track has also been streamlined and now features applied luminous markers. The hands are also the signature version of most BP UK high quality copy watches but for the rest, the dial has kept the same layout and the unusual position of the flying tourbillon at 12 o’clock.
Inside the luxury shop replica IWC watches are the powerful in-house calibre 51950, an automatic movement wound by a Petit Prince-themed solid gold rotor. This calibre comes with a 168-hour power reserve (7 days) and is regulated by a flying one-minute tourbillon (82 parts and 0.635 grams) running at 19,800 vibrations/hour. On top sits the brand’s signature perpetual calendar module, first developed by watchmaker Kurt Klaus during the 1980s. It displays the calendar information on three subdials, including the phases of the moon with the Little Prince on his asteroid – the moon phase will only deviate by one day after 577.5 years. It also indicates the years in a 4-digit window.
Worn on a case-matching blue rubber strap, closed by a gold folding clasp, the polarising blue ceramic cheap super clone IWC Big Pilot’s Watches Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Le Petit Prince IW504901 is a limited edition of 100 pieces.
