Marc & Emmanuel Didisheim were the founding fathers of the Didisheim watchmaking Comptoir in Saint-Imier in 1850. They soon assigned each other roles, Emmanuel being in charge of horology, and Marc taking care of sales. One of the main reasons for their success, besides the immediate reliability of their production, lay in their faith in the mechanization of watchmaking. In 1854, they begin building a workshop which grew rapidly to meet the inrush of orders.