“My eyes scanned the wheel repeatedly. I am well-behaved in all subjects, but each needle is there, it should be …” This is the first sentence of the “Terre des Hommes” from1939, in which Antoine de Saint-Egyptian describes a spectacular crash landing in the Libyan desert. The flight is aimed at him and his mechanic Prévot from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City, also set a new record, the route has come to an end. There is no doubt that this account is one of the most exciting described survive in the desert, and “Saint-Exupery” Love life – its sand, night, silence, as their home, “the wind and the stars.”
“Terre des Hommes” is perhaps the most impressive of Saint-Exupery’s hymn aviation and start-up under extreme conditions era. This is a praise of the struggle between the pilots and the air forces of nature, from the hands of their distance, height and time. In this book, he also tells the story of mobile people, in order to survive to fight his friend Henri Guillaumet, who crashed in the snow-covered Andes. He described how he survived five days and nights, until the last, close to death, he was discovered and rescued.
Settings can not be more extreme: from the vast Patagonia ice sheets through the Cordillera Mountains hostile vast Sahara. Continents in many time zones. What may be more appropriate, rather than to provide the third special edition of the International Whaling Commission, the pilot’s watch exclusive live and work of French writer, a typical pilot’s complication: the development of UTC display and the first time the International Whaling Commission use in the pilot’s watch totally more than ten years ago. Coordinated Universal Time referred to as advocates – Today, this has become the established time standards, based on Greenwich Mean Time, including international flights schedule.
The most significant features of the coordination of the world is its purpose is to meet this requirement of prosperity long before the time in the world watches. Although the reference to the time display window unswervingly continue to run – whether the Universal Time, or at the local time for your place of residence – the actual time zone, the location can be easily adjusted in one-hour steps, through the crown. It provides unlimited adjustment, both forwards and back, so in any direction of flight. Shows that the date is synchronized jump-hour show and returned it the day before, because it is adjusted backwards – or advance payment adjustment after the second day of an hour show at midnight. Such a mechanism so that each District direct use and inadequate judicial aviation needs.
In his day, Antoine de Saint Exupery is impossible to use such a practical invention. However, in the third watch a special edition dedicated to him is also a combination of visual nostalgia pioneering days of aviation watches the most up-to-date technology. In order to increase the memory of the pioneer era of aviation, the watch is accompanied by an exclusive, limited edition of the novel “Terre des Hommes” from Gallimard in Paris, this book’s original publisher. Novels published this year decided a number of watches in the version of Saint-Exupery: 1939, of which 1188 in stainless steel, 500 rose gold, 250 gold, in a white single example, in platinum, which will not be sold, and will again be auctioned for charity at a later date. Proceeds from the auction on this occasion will be conducive to SIPAR organization in Cambodia, it is committed to providing schools, libraries and children’s books translated into the national language, Khmer Rouge in the past 25 years. Coincidentally, the first book has been translated SIPAR is “The Little Prince” of Antoine de Saint Exupery.
Watch case diameter is 44 millimeters and dial-up once again in the same tobacco brown previous model. In such cases, also the initial “A” of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s signature decorative dial-up here in the “9.00.” The 30,710-caliber automatic sports center second hand, seconds stop function and date display for the drive mechanism for viewing. And by convex sapphire glass secured against a sudden drop in pressure, movement from the strong magnetic field of soft iron inner case. Light brown buffalo strap backstitching its distinctive feature of further observation, which also has a huge collector attractive. Back to the press and screw crown, and the pilot version of the Watch UTC Antoine de Saint Exupery water depth of 6 bar. This is not a museum. Rather, it is a tool attribute “flight qualified”, but this always remind us of the discomfort and sacrifice, the heroic pilot as Saint-Exupery, Guillaumet, Mermoz and many other ways to prepare what is now a comfortable mode of travel.
As once again reminded the back engraved. It shows a “tool” to express the “saint benefits” are also used when referring to the aircraft. It is actually a strong Latécoère 25, referred to as “the late 25″, in which he and his colleagues for aviation pilots flying especially in Argentina and Chile. Its first aircraft in Argentina “Aeroposta” in 1929, with the pilot exposed to content outside the cabin, including space, a maximum of four passengers, or an equal number of e-mail.
Technical Data
Features
Mechanical automatic movement, date
Showed that a 24-hour display (UTC monitors), time
Shows that can be used for an hour through the steps
Crown, the center seconds stop function,
Soft iron inner case, returned to sculpture, limited
Version: 1 platinum (not to sell), 250 white
Gold, 500 index rose gold, stainless steel 1188
Sports
Caliber 30710
Vibration 28,800 / hour / 4 Hz
Jewelry 23
Power reserve 42 h
Voluntary winding-up
Case
Materials platinum, platinum, rose gold,
Stainless Steel
Sapphire glass, convex, Turner,
Secured on the downward pressure
6 bar water resistance
44 millimeters in diameter
Height 12.9 millimeters
Weight
Watch platinum Brown buffalo strap with two hundred and ten grams
Watch white water buffalo and Brown 172 grams of gold bracelet
Watch the Rose Gold and Brown buffalo strap 168 grams
Watch stainless steel and brown buffalo strap 115 grams