Schaffhausen/Geneva, April 14^th, 2026: To mark 20 years of its collaboration with the descendants of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, IWC Schaffhausen unveils a new Le Petit Prince collection at Watches and Wonders. Highlights of the collection are the first models with the new, forward-and-backward-adjustable Perpetual Calendar ProSet in white zirconium oxide ceramic and stainless steel, and the first Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Le Petit Prince in white ceramic. For the first time, the Little Prince ventures beyond the Pilot’s Watches family and appears in the Portofino collection. Featuring deep blue sunray-finished dials and charming design details depicting the Little Prince, these new editions pay tribute to one of the most beloved stories ever written – celebrating the timeless bond between aviation, exploration and the human spirit.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a man of two worlds. By profession, he was a pilot – a pioneer of early mail aviation who crossed the Sahara and the South Atlantic. By vocation, he was a writer and philosopher, whose novels and essays translated the experience of flight into a reflection on what it means to be human. He never separated the two. For Saint-Exupéry, the cockpit was not a place of escape but of clarity – a vantage point from which the essential things in life, usually hidden in the noise and hustle of the everyday, became suddenly, startlingly visible. In 2006, IWC Schaffhausen began a collaboration with the descendants of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that has grown into one of watchmaking’s most meaningful creative partnerships. Over two decades, it has given rise to special editions and anniversary pieces, joint museum projects and exhibitions, as well as charity initiatives organized in collaboration with the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Youth Foundation to champion the author’s humanist values.

The cornerstone of the partnership, however, has always been the blue-dial special editions inspired by “The Little Prince”. First published in 1943 and since translated into more than 600 languages and dialects, Saint-Exupéry’s most famous novel follows a young prince on a journey through space to different planets, where he engages in conversations with their inhabitants and discovers enduring truths about love, loss, and friendship. Its most celebrated line – “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye” – has resonated with readers across generations and cultures, and continues to give the story its quiet, universal appeal. 

The deep blue sunray-finished dial, the signature feature of IWC’s special editions dedicated to “The Little Prince”, is not an arbitrary choice. In Saint-Exupéry’s story, the sky is everywhere – vast, silent and full of meaning. The Little Prince travels through it to reach distant planets, and it is in the infinite space between the stars that he learns his most valuable lessons. IWC’s deep blue dials evoke the same sense of depth and distance, of something boundless glimpsed through the glass of a cockpit window. Worn on the wrist, these dials are an invitation to never lose one’s sense of curiosity and always look beyond the horizon.

What makes our Le Petit Prince editions so enduring is the way they reconcile two things that are not always easy to reconcile in luxury watchmaking: precision engineering and emotional resonance. A Pilot’s Watch is, by design, a functional instrument – pure, clean and legible. And yet these editions in honour of the Little Prince add a more tender and emotional side to this instrument. The charming depictions of the Little Prince, engraved or printed on the case backs, transform a tool into a talisman. They give the watch an additional story – and in doing so, they give its wearer one too.

This year, as IWC Schaffhausen celebrates both 90 years of Pilot’s Watches and 20 years of collaboration with the heirs of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the collection reaches new territory. For the first time, the new Perpetual Calendar ProSet – representing one of the most significant advances in perpetual calendar design in years – appears in a Le Petit Prince edition, pairing horological innovation with the collection’s unmistakable spirit of discovery. For the first time, a Le Petit Prince chronograph is crafted from white ceramic. And, also for the first time, a Le Petit Prince edition ventures beyond the Pilot’s Watches family into the Portofino collection. As a charming detail, the Little Prince is depicted standing on the moon of the watch’s day and night display, gazing at the night sky. 

• Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar ProSet Le Petit Prince (Ref. IW339601): white zirconium oxide ceramic case, deep blue dial with a gradient finish, rhodium-plated hands filled with Super-LumiNova^®, white rubber strap with EasX-CHANGE^® system, IWC-manufactured 82665 calibre. 
   

• Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar ProSet Le Petit Prince (Ref. IW329601): stainless steel case and bracelet, deep blue dial, rhodium-plated hands and appliqués, stainless steel bracelet and additional blue rubber strap with EasX-CHANGE^® system, IWC-manufactured 82665 calibre. 
   

• Pilot’s Watch Mark XX Le Petit Prince (Ref. IW328301): 18-carat 5N gold case, blue dial with a sunray finish, solid 18-carat 5N gold appliqués, gold-plated hands with Super-LumiNova^®, blue rubber strap with EasX-CHANGE^® system, IWC-manufactured 32112 calibre. 
   

• Pilot’s Watch Mark XX Le Petit Prince (Ref. IW328221): stainless steel case, deep blue dial with a sunray finish, gold-plated hands with Super-LumiNova^®, blue rubber strap with EasX-CHANGE^® system, IWC-manufactured 32112 calibre. 
   

• Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Le Petit Prince (Ref. IW378011): 43-millimetre stainless steel case, deep blue dial with a sunray finish, gold-plated hands with Super-LumiNova^®, blue rubber strap with EasX-CHANGE^® system, IWC-manufactured 69385 calibre. 
   

• Pilot’s Watch Chronograph 41 Le Petit Prince (Ref. IW388120): 41-millimetre stainless steel case, deep blue dial with a sunray finish, gold-plated hands with Super-LumiNova^®, blue rubber strap with EasX-CHANGE^® system, IWC-manufactured 69385 calibre. 
   

• Pilot’s Watch Automatic 36 Le Petit Prince (Ref. IW458802): stainless steel case, deep blue dial with a sunray finish, gold-plated hands with Super-LumiNova, blue calfskin strap, IWC-manufactured 32102 calibre. 
   

• Portofino Automatic Day & Night 34 Le Petit Prince (Ref. IW459806): stainless steel case, deep blue dial with a sunray finish, gold-plated hands with Super-LumiNova^®, blue alligator leather strap from Santoni, Calibre 35180.