Auricoste Spirotechnique Owner Review : Readable, iconic and robust

Having served France in the French Navy for nearly 30 years, I embarked on warships that were equipped with the time network provided by the Auricoste company. Beautiful bulkhead clocks that stood in the navigation shelter, at the Telecommunications PC, at the Operations Center or at the Machine PC, encouraged me to take an interest in this watchmaking company founded in 1854. So this year we are celebrating the 170th anniversary of this Navy Watchmaker! When you wear a uniform, there is only one object of coquetry that you can grant yourself on any occasion: the wristwatch. When I had the opportunity to acquire my first diver's watch, I naturally chose the Spirotechnique model whose military past is beyond doubt with its serial number erased with a burin in one of the workshops of the Brest Fleet. Very readable, this diving watch has the particularity of highlighting a few colors that can be exacerbated by a judicious choice of strap: the blue of the Auricoste logo, the yellow-orange of the Spirotechnique diver, the brown of the tritium indexes give the happy owner the possibility of changing the look at will. The smoothness of the thread of the screw-down crown combined with the robustness of the diving bezel give this watch a strong character in epipelagic areas. I recently acquired a very successful reissue from the reseller montresam.fr who is a distributor of the Auricoste brand in the Grand Ouest.