Mayet & Cie was a Grenoble-based watchmaker and jeweller, founded in 1957, not a household name, but one that knew how to build a watch. This chronograph is an anomaly in the best sense: a skin diver case housing a chronograph movement, a combination that almost no one was making at the time. The case is identical in construction to the steel chronograph cases used by Yema and late Universal Genève, built to the same standard, with two functional pushers and a rotating graduated bezel. The reverse panda dial is original and in very good condition, with the characteristic cream patina on the rectangular indices and the "INCABLOC" inscription below center. The movement is a Landeron 148, a cam-actuated chronograph caliber, solid and proven. It has been checked and regulated. The acrylic crystal is new. The hands have been re-lumed. If you know, you know. If you don't, this is your introduction to one of the more interesting French chronographs of the 1960s.
Dial: Black reverse panda dial, cream patina rectangular indices, white subdials
Case: Steel, 38mm, skin diver style
Bezel: Rotating black bezel with tachymetre/dive graduation
Movement: Landeron 148, cam-actuated chronograph
Strap: Brown leather 19mm
Crystal: New acrylic
Condition: Good. Honest wear on case; dial and subdials in good condition
