IWC to Honor Author/Aviator Antoine de Saint Exupery

The dial is marked with silver A along with luminous large Arabic numbers and hands, so reading the time would be available in the dark. The inside of the case is made of soft iron. It has a screw-in crown and its convex sapphire glass, having antireflective coating on both sides, provides the watch with 60 meters water resistance. The money gathered from the on-line auction will benefit a school which was named in honor of de Saint Exupery. The Ecole des Sables - Antoine de Saint Exupery located in Mali, a country found in the West of Africa, is an institution that provides schooling for Tuareg children, wondering, nomadic people.It also includes large seconds hand, an indicator of the date, which looks like the altimeter display in an aircraft. "Pilot's Automatic Edition Antoine de Saint Exupery" features a relief engraving on its back. The engraving outlines the geographic array of operations during the French author/pilot's era. It is worth mentioning that de Saint Exupery was born in 1900 and in 1944 apparently disappeared when being on a flying mission during the Second World War. The exclusive timepiece features a brown buffalo-leather strap. It's 44-millimeter case includes a dial featuring a tobacco color.