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·Hello everyone. Posting to share my experience with cleaning up marks on a ceramic bezel insert.
I recently purchased this Seamaster 300M ETNZ used, and while it was in excellent condition overall, there were some fairly prominent, obvious marks on the ceramic bezel. I thought, "Wait a second. There aren't supposed to be scratches on a ceramic bezel." So after a bit of research I learned that what I was seeing weren't scratches, but marks on the ceramic left by whatever had come into contact with the bezel insert. The prevailing thought was that these marks could be removed with a regular pencil eraser. That prevailing thought seems to be correct. Here's my result after about 10 to 15 minutes of work with an eraser.
You can still see the marks somewhat, but most of the marks have been removed. In regular light without magnification these marks are as good as gone. I cannot for the life of me see these marks when I look at my watch under normal circumstances in good lighting. You can see in the closeup view in daylight that they're quite faint.
I will continue to work on these marks with an eraser from time to time, just to see if I can make the marks disappear completely. (Personal challenge!)
Anyway, I felt compelled to share just in case anyone out there is wondering how to easily restore the appearance of a marked up matte ceramic bezel insert, and for anyone who wanted to see an actual result using the simple pencil eraser technique. Well, and also to check to see if I'm correct in my assumption that there is no actual scratching going on here!
Does anyone have any other ideas or techniques to share for cleaning up a matte ceramic bezel insert?
I recently purchased this Seamaster 300M ETNZ used, and while it was in excellent condition overall, there were some fairly prominent, obvious marks on the ceramic bezel. I thought, "Wait a second. There aren't supposed to be scratches on a ceramic bezel." So after a bit of research I learned that what I was seeing weren't scratches, but marks on the ceramic left by whatever had come into contact with the bezel insert. The prevailing thought was that these marks could be removed with a regular pencil eraser. That prevailing thought seems to be correct. Here's my result after about 10 to 15 minutes of work with an eraser.
You can still see the marks somewhat, but most of the marks have been removed. In regular light without magnification these marks are as good as gone. I cannot for the life of me see these marks when I look at my watch under normal circumstances in good lighting. You can see in the closeup view in daylight that they're quite faint.
I will continue to work on these marks with an eraser from time to time, just to see if I can make the marks disappear completely. (Personal challenge!)
Anyway, I felt compelled to share just in case anyone out there is wondering how to easily restore the appearance of a marked up matte ceramic bezel insert, and for anyone who wanted to see an actual result using the simple pencil eraser technique. Well, and also to check to see if I'm correct in my assumption that there is no actual scratching going on here!
Does anyone have any other ideas or techniques to share for cleaning up a matte ceramic bezel insert?
