Simon Vissière was born in Paris in 1832 and died in Cannets in 1887. He apprenticed to Joseph-Thadoeus Winnerl and quickly established his own business. He entered various exhibitions in 1849 and 1851 and thereafter apparently spent some time in London. In 1867 he finally set up business in Havre where he built an observatory and continued making chronometers including patenting a special balance.
Vissiere entered his No. 326 in the Greenwich Chronometer Trials for 1871.