IWC Große Fliegeruhr Big Limited to 250 Full Set Mint

The IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar Edition “Antoine de Saint Exupéry” IW503801 (2016, strictly limited to 250 pieces worldwide) is the most exclusive and beautiful Saint-Exupéry Big Pilot ever created. Crafted in warm Stainless Steel with a massive 46 mm × 15.7 mm case, it features the iconic tobacco-brown sunburst dial — the signature color of all Saint-Exupéry editions — that shifts from deep espresso to glowing amber under light.

This is a full perpetual calendar with Kurt Klaus’s legendary module: four sub-dials show day + power-reserve at 9, four-digit year + date at 12, month at 3, and the poetic double moonphase (northern & southern hemispheres) at 6 o’clock. It automatically recognizes leap years and is correct until 2100. The in-house Calibre 51614 delivers a 7-day (168-hour) power reserve via twin barrels and Pellaton winding with ceramic components. Soft-iron inner cage, oversized luminous hands, massive cone crown, and a caseback engraved with Saint-Exupéry’s Caudron Simoun aircraft complete the aviation romance.

Delivered on a brown Santoni alligator strap with Stainless Steel folding clasp, the IW503801 is the absolute pinnacle of luxury pilot complications. With only 250 pieces ever made and long discontinued, it is a true modern grail.