Rolex Deepsea and bezel pearl.....oops

[deftronic]

Guys,

2 months ago I bought from a respectable forum member a deepsea from the year 2009. This with matching box and papers. While looking at my beauty today I noticed that the bezel pearl was missing. Damn!!

My question. How can this happen? I did not wear it that much the past period. And as far as I know I did not really bump or what so ever into anything. On the forum I found a topic stating that pearls do not fall out of the bezel by it self. And overall are attached for long life.

Called an AD and questioned them. The only thing they could tell is that replacing would only be possible by doing the whole bezel. This would cost me about 500 dollars. And that normally the pearl does not fall out. But that an accident is always possible.

Please enligten me ;( Could this be an aftermarket bezel. For me it does not look that way.