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Diamond.com, Diamonddepot.com, WorldofWatches.com and probably others belong to the parent company Odimo. Three years ago, Diamonddepot.com sold me an Omega with the serial number removed and without disclosing this to me.

Here is current text from the Diamond.com site. When I bought from Diamonddepot.com three years ago, there was no such disclosure.

"Notice:
Diamond.com offers genuine brand name watches at substantial discounts to the manufacturer's suggested retail price. Because of our discounted pricing, we are not "Authorized Dealers" as defined by the manufacturer.

All of our watches are genuine and authentic. Excluding our pre-owned watches, all watches are new. We buy our watches through authorized dealers and distributors and other established lines of distribution within the watch industry.

In order to provide you with the best possible savings on your watch purchase, our vendors must protect their sources of supply. For this reason, the serial number has been removed from certain of these new genuine brand name watches. Laws in your state may require us to refer to these watches as "secondhand". Under such circumstances, these watches are covered by Diamond.com's Limited Warranty and not by the original manufacturer. Our warranty matches or doubles the original manufacturer's warranty coverage period and our professional watch technicians service these watches in-house."