====== Tourneau ======
**Tourneau** is the largest authorized watch [[retailer]] in the United States and operates an in-house watch [[brand]].

===== Overview =====
The Tourneau brothers opened their first watch counter in [[1925]] at the Berkshire Place Hotel in New York City. In [[1930]], the first Tourneau store opened at 49th Street and Madison Avenue, capitalizing on demand for Swiss wristwatches. A second Tourneau store opened at the Pennsylvania Hotel across from Penn Station in [[1940]].

The Wexler family, which had opened their first jewelry store in [[1900]] in Eastern Europe, purchased Tourneau in [[1975]] and began expanding outside New York. They opened a location in Bal Harbour, Florida in [[1979]] before expanding to the West Coast in the 1990s.

In [[1997]], the Tourneau TimeMachine flagship store opened in New York, said to be the world's largest watch store. This was surpassed in [[2005]] with the opening of the Tourneau Time Dome at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

In [[2006]], Tourneau was sold by the family to the private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners for $355 million. In [[2018]], [[Bucherer Group]] purchased Tourneau for an undisclosed sum. The company is said to be interested in bringing the Bucherer name to the United States market.

===== Watch Brands =====
Today, Tourneau is the largest authorized watch retail operation in the United States and sells many major brands [[Richemont]] ([[Baume & Mercier]], [[Cartier]], [[IWC]], [[Jaeger-LeCoultre]], [[Montblanc]], [[Panerai]], [[Piaget]], [[Ralph Lauren]], [[Vacheron Constantin]]), [[Citizen Holdings]] ([[Alpina]], [[Citizen]], [[Frédérique Constant]]), [[Swatch Group]] ([[Blancpain]], [[Breguet]], [[Glashütte Original]], [[Hamilton]], [[Longines]], [[Mido]], [[Omega]], [[Rado]], [[Tissot]]), [[LVMH]] ([[TAG Heuer]], [[Zenith]]), and other brands ([[Ball Watch]], [[Bell & Ross]], [[Breitling]], [[Carl F. Bucherer]], [[Corum]], [[Devon]], [[Franck Muller]], [[Mondaine]], [[Movado]], [[Nomos Glashütte]], [[Oris]], [[Patek Philippe]], [[Raymond Weil]], [[Rolex]], [[Shinola]], [[Tudor]], [[Tutima]], [[U-Boat]], [[Victorinox Swiss Army]]). Many of these brands have [[boutique]]s within or alongside Tourneau stores, notably [[Rolex]], [[Patek Philippe]], and [[Omega]]. Some major brands are not represented, however, including [[A. Lange & Söhne]], [[Audemars Piguet]], [[Bulgari]], [[Hublot]], and others.

Additionally, Tourneau maintains their own in-house brand.


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