Business and Professions Code section 21501

Except as provided in this article “secondhand watch” means any of the following:

(a)

A watch which, as a whole, or the case thereof, or the movement thereof, has been sold to a consumer.

(b)

Any watch whose case or movement, serial numbers or other distinguishing numbers or identification marks have been erased, defaced, removed, altered or covered.

Source: Section 21501, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=21501.­ (updated Jan. 1, 1941; accessed Nov. 17, 2025).

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