These watches were built/assembled (about 1.000) by Jacques Bianchi in Marseille during 1993-94, issued to recon/assault divers of the french Army and probably dismissed by the Army around 2005.
J.Bianchi's shop still exhists and services these watches. It has been probably one of the last analogic and mechanical (ETA 2824) issued watch and it was used by recon/assault divers of the french Army, so called plongeurs d'intervention offensive, including those of the french Foreign Legion. See below the pictures of a diver/parachutist's kit of the 17e Regiment Genie Parachutiste and of an underwater navigation board. The depth meter on the board has the same logo of the Armee de Terre printed on the watch dial.
Anyway, I bought it in France, then sent it to J.Bianchi's shop to get the right mineral glass and gasket, then to Jack@IWW, then eventually got it back on my wrist. On the back of the watch you can see the month/year/SN and the two stars of CE.TE.HOR. (CEntre TEchnique de l'industrie HORlogere) engravings.
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