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: Bought it from a dealer in New York. I actually
: think it just might have been polished out.
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In most states it is illegal to remove, alter or obliterate the manufacturer's serial number on ANY product so marked. These laws also make it illegal to even possess such an article, and immediate confiscation by a law enforcement officer is authorized. (My state is one of them.)
This doesn't mean that you are going to be stopped at a road block to have your watch inspected, but you could run into a problem if for example, you take a watch with an obliterated serial number to a repair facility and the watchmaker is aware of local law.
The intent of such laws is to curtail the trade of stolen property and to facilitate the return of such property to its rightful owner, which could be you. Although some dealers may remove the serial number for gray market purposes, the laws make no distinction - an obliterated serial number is an obliterated serial number. It appears that some gray market dealers have figured this out and are no longer removing the serial numbers.
A lot of people are not aware of these laws and I just wanted to pass on the information.
Randy Holst
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