Pelagos ceramic bezel scratch

[propofolboy]

Just wanted to provide some info in case anyone scratches their pelagos ceramic bezel.

I hit it pretty hard against something metal and the ceramic blue bezel got what looked like a serious scratch (grey line about 1 cm long). I tried everything to remove it - toothbrush, eraser, car polish.. nothing seemed to touch it.. For months I noticed it everytime I looked at my watch. I was actually planning to send it in for bezel replacement..

Yesterday I had a bit of rust on one of my japanese knives, and got out my knife rust eraser.. hmmm.. could this work... Well you know what, it removed the scratch completely on the ceramic bezel, with almost no effort..

Full disclosure I had no idea what a knife eraser was made of, and probably should have looked that up first -- its a combination of rubber and silicone carbide. Silicone carbide is actually harder than sapphire on MOHs scale (like 9.5). So I don't know if this is a good idea in general because it could scratch both the sapphire crystal and ceramic bezel in theory... But in practice it worked perfectly to remove a stubborn scratch on my bezel. I looked carefully with a loupe and it did no damage and the 'scratch' was completely gone. I imagine this wasn't actually a scratch but some very persistant metal residue.

Anyway maybe this is helpful. Proceed at your own risk and YMMV.