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.

Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 21501

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

(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 50.)