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Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
Registration No. 333-105816

PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT NO. 9
(TO PROSPECTUS DATED AUGUST 1, 2003)


$575,000,000
WATSON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

1.75% CONVERTIBLE CONTINGENT SENIOR DEBENTURES DUE 2023
SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THE DEBENTURES

        This Prospectus Supplement No. 9 supplements and amends the Prospectus dated August 1, 2003, as amended (as amended, the "Prospectus"), relating to the resale from time to time by holders of our 1.75% Convertible Contingent Senior Debentures Due 2023 (the "Debentures") and shares of our common stock issuable upon the conversion of the Debentures. Such information has been obtained from the selling securityholders. This prospectus supplement should be read in conjunction with the Prospectus, which is to be delivered with this prospectus supplement.

        The information appearing in the table below, as of the date hereof, supplements and amends the information in the table appearing under the heading "Selling Securityholders" in the Prospectus, and, where the name of a Selling Securityholder identified in the table below also appears in the table in the Prospectus, the information set forth in the table below regarding that Selling Securityholder supercedes the information in the Prospectus:

NAME
   PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF DEBENTURES BENEFICIALLY OWNED AND OFFERED HEREBY (1)
   PERCENTAGE OF
DEBENTURES
OUTSTANDING
   COMMON STOCK OWNED PRIOR TO THE OFFERING
   COMMON STOCK OFFERED HEREBY (1)
2000 Revocable Trust FBO A.R. Lauder/Zinterhofer   $ 7,000   *   0   174
Alcon Laboratories     391,000   *   0   9,762
Arapahoe County Colorado     47,000   *   0   1,173
Arlington County Employees Retirement System     676,000   *   0   16,878
Asante Health Systems     100,000   *   0   2,496
British Virgin Islands Social Security Board     90,000   *   0   2,247
City and County of San Francisco Retirement System     1,494,000   *   0   37,303
City of New Orleans     206,000   *   0   5,143
City University of New York     151,000   *   0   3,770
Delaware Public Employees Retirement System     1,566,000   *   0   39,101
Georgia Municipal     1,039,000   *   0   25,942
Grable Foundation, The     81,000   *   0   2,022
Grady Hospital Foundation     134,000   *   0   3,345
Independence Blue Cross     400,000   *   0   9,987
Merrill Lynch Insurance Group     379,000   *   0   9,463
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated     3,448,000   *   93,964   86,092
Municipal Employees     242,000   *   0   6,042
New Orleans Firefighters Pension/Relief Fund     137,000   *   0   3,420
Occidental Petroleum Corporation     268,000   *   0   6,691
OCM Convertible Trust     2,680,000   *   0   66,916
Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation     159,000   *   0   3,970
Policeman and Firemen Retirement System of the City of Detroit     534,000   *   0   13,333
                   
Pro-mutual     758,000   *   0   18,926
S.A.C. Capital Associates, LLC     0   *   0   0
State of Maryland Retirement
Agency		     3,241,000   *   0   80,923
Trustmark Insurance     345,000   *   0   8,614
*
Less than one percent.

(1)
The number of shares of common stock owned prior to the offering includes shares of common stock into which the Debentures are convertible. The number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Debentures offered hereby is based on a conversion rate of 24.9688 shares of common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Debentures and a cash payment in lieu of any fractional shares. The conversion rate is subject to adjustment in certain events resulting in the increase or decrease of the number of conversion shares from time to time. Information concerning other Selling Securityholders will be set forth in prospectus supplements from time to time, if required. The number of shares of common stock owned by the other Selling Securityholders or any future transferee from any such holder assumes that they do not beneficially own any common stock other than common stock into which the Debentures are convertible.

        INVESTING IN THE DEBENTURES OR THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THE DEBENTURES INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. PLEASE CONSIDER THE "RISK FACTORS" BEGINNING ON PAGE 10 OF THE PROSPECTUS.

        NEITHER THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION NOR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED OF THESE SECURITIES OR DETERMINED IF THE PROSPECTUS IS TRUTHFUL OR COMPLETE. ANY REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE.

The date of this prospectus supplement is December 3, 2003.

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