[2][3][4][5] Born in Roncq on 23 August 1895, Wattine played at RC Roubaix between 1920 and 1923,[2] and together with Georges Verriest, Gérard Isbecque, and Raymond Dubly, he helped Roubaix return to its pre-war glory by winning the Division d'Honneur of the 1922–23 Northern Football League,[6] doing so with 38 points, two more than runner-up Olympique Lillois.

[8] On 25 February 1923, the 27-year-old Wattine earned his first (and only) international cap for France in a friendly match against Belgium at Forest, which ended in a 4–1 loss.

[3][4][5] He played the entire match as a starter, alongside fellow club teammates Isbecque and Dubly, the latter being the team's captain.

[9] In doing so, Wattine and Isbecque became only the fifth and sixth RC Roubaix players to represent the French national team, after Émile Sartorius, Maurice Vandendriessche, Dubly, and Emile Dusart.

[10] One of his cousins, Louis-Marie Bossut [fr], an officer who died during the First World War, now has a statue in his honor in Roubaix in the Barbieux park.