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During the late 1960s, commercial work in the oceans and seas created professional diving organizations that needed tool watches designed for conducting safe diving operations at greater depths – known as saturation diving. This led to the development of ...  

The history from the divers always bring the watches to another level. The diver who owned my comex gave some great pictures and stories to accompany the watch. Thanks Bill ...  

I have pretty much stuff with my 1665 also....but that does not compare to what I got from the diver when I bought my 5514 ! ...  

....because the watches were tool watches, that meant they were "used" and that usage was often colourful and interesting. It just didn't happen with many other manufacturers in the same volume. Sure, Omega, Hamilton, JLC, Blancpain.....all of them had th... 

...I am prepapring a review of a Rolex Submariner and an Omega Ploprof that I have bought from a couple of retired divers (husband and wife). Both watches have a crazy history and lots of documentation. That was the teaser of the day...LOL !!

a watch with real history is all we can dream of. only a true collector can appreciate the value. Bill

Jeff: Great post. Always interesting to learn more about COMEX and the iconic watches that accompanied those divers. Enjoy that watch - it is something special! -Mike

...cause a very heavy attack of sellers remorse! Beautiful she is without make-up! Enjoy her in good health, Jeff!

At least it is in good hands with a loving family. And same for you. Best Bill

Furthermore, even though there is some seller's remorse, there certainly is no buyer's remorse for the replacement I got!

sorry for this late answer but I'm under a flood of messages ( more than usual .. LOL LOL LOL LOL )

lots of watches to expertise I assume ! Thanks and see you soon for some rosé by the Med ;-)

What a nice watch Jeff, and super pictures from the "young Comex" period. Ps: are you sure that (as you wrote) the earlier 5513 Comex have NO HEV? I seen a 5514 Cx without HEV (Christie s) but never seen 5513 Cx without HEV Thanks in advance for the answe... 

in my opinion : if there is no valve then also no delivery number as we perfectly know that " nr.1 " has a case number from 1971 and was sold to Comex in early 1972.