In 2014, Schaffhausen IWC introduced the stainless steel large pilot series Little Prince Special Edition watch (Ref. IW500909) for the first time, and now this well-loved watch finally welcomes 18K Red gold.
   The new 18K red gold models are limited to 250 pieces worldwide. They are equipped with a 7-day power reserve. The dial is decorated with elegant sun patterns. The bottom of the case is engraved with the endless battle picture of the little prince and baobab species. The roots will split the entire planet into pieces.
   Schaffhausen IWC launches a special edition of the Pilot’s Edition Little Prince, a tribute to the fairy tale Little Prince, the best-selling book in literary history by legendary writer, pilot and adventurer Anthony de Saint-Exupé Made here. Since 2006, Schaffhausen IWC has established a close partnership with Anthony de Saint-Exupery’s descendants and its Youth Foundation to work together on the development of children and youth-related charities around the world.
Technical specifications
Movement: IWC calibre 51111 movement, 21,600 vibrations / hour (3 Hz), 42 gems, power reserve 7 days (168 hours), equipped with Pellaton automatic winding system, Glucydur® * bery Alloy balance, Breguet balance spring
Functions: hours, minutes, seconds, date display, power reserve display
Case: 18K red gold, 46 mm diameter, 16 mm thickness, double-sided anti-reflective sapphire crystal, screw-down crown, engraved Little Prince pattern on the bottom, water-resistant to 60 meters
Dial: Midnight blue, gold-plated and Super-LumiNova®
Strap: Brown calfskin strap with 18K red gold buckle
Global Limited: 250 pieces

François-Paul is a well-known watch structural designer and artist, as well as a man with a true temperament. He has donated his latest creation, Centigraphe, to each Centigraphe by 3%. Ten profits are donated to the ICM to fund high-tech medical research in brain behavior and myelopathy.
François-Paul Journe laid the foundation stone for the building of ICM, a specialized agency for the study of brain behavior and myelopathy, and became one of the founding members of ICM.

In this event, he stated that he insisted on supporting ICM’s efforts to fight diseases of the brain and spinal cord. As a well-known watch structural designer, artist, and a man with a true temperament, he has donated his latest creation, Centigraphe, and donated 30% of each Centigraphe’s profit to ICM to fund behavior in the brain. And high-tech medical research in myelopathy.
The founders of ICM are determined to build and maintain an international research center with the latest technology. This project will bring patients, doctors, nearly 600 researchers, engineers and technicians together in one center.
The Centigraphe Souverain
Centigraphe Souverain is the latest watch launched by François-Paul Journe in 2007. It is a mechanical stopwatch that has never been seen before.

The hand-crafted movement has three dials and can measure time from one hundredth of a second to ten minutes at the same time. Each dial has a red time scale and a black tachometer. The tachometer converts time into speed. Its working range is down to six kilometers per hour, which is about walking speed, and up to 360,000 kilometers per hour, which is faster than the escape speed of a meteorite into low-level space.
The flying second hand at ten o’clock is on a dial labeled one hundredth of a second, and one revolution per second, theoretically, it can time an object moving at a speed of 360,000 kilometers per hour. This speed is about one-thousandth of the speed of light.
The stopwatch is started, stopped, and reset by a joystick in the case, rather than the button on one side of the commonly used crown-this is a new program of human environmental reformation, which has been made Patent protection. The rocker rotates the cylindrical gear, and the gear triggers the lever in the traditional way, which realizes start, stop, and zero in turn.
The second certified patent in this unique special mechanical mechanism is to effectively separate the stopwatch from the chronograph function. This means that when the stopwatch is working, the amplitude of the hairspring is not affected.
Source: Montres Journe
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www.icm-institute.org