Of Space And Time

IWC revisits The Little Prince with two unabashedly ambitious and complex Big Pilot references.

- Haziq Yusof

IT IS OFTEN the simple things that are the most complicated. Anyone who has read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince—a seemingly plainspoken tale that explores love, loss, and the weight of growing up—can attest to that. Unlike the novella, which masks its depth in childlike wonder, the latest Le Petit Prince-inspired watches from IWC announce their complexities from the get-go.

It must be said that IWC is no stranger to Saint-Exupéry’s legacy, having crafted collaborative timepieces with The Antoine de Saint Exupéry Youth Foundation for the better part of two decades. The latest watches—the Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Le Petit Prince and Big Pilot’s Watch 43 Tourbillon Le Petit Prince—feature the collection's signature midnight blue dials finished in a striking radial sunburst that’s evocative of the celestial night skies depicted in the story.