Zodiac Kingline caseback

[evghenii]

Hello!
Today I opened my watch and noticed an inscription inside the сaseback: modele depose JB. Its french, but Iam not understand the sense and never saw this in another zodiacs. May be somebody help me?

[Cobber]

Hi Evg...,
As this is a really old post, you've probably already figured this out.  I was searching Kingline here this morning and stumbled on your question and was curious as well.
The "modele depose" just means the case is a registered design.  I assume this provided some sort of protection against copies of the case.  I suspect the J * B stamp is the hallmark of the case manufacturer.  I tried searching to figure out who that might be but didn't find anything to report.
Funny thing though, I did a search on "modele depose J B watch" and the first several images that popped up had identical cases to your Zodiac but the dials had a couple different names I have never heard of before.