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my number 581 of 1848 produced has the same effect. My watch is now 11 months old (see picture below) and the white gold 18K bezel has alot of fuzzy scratches.

You know what, it's normal. You have an "18K" white gold bezel. 18K is super soft and of course expensive. The complete Ti bezel with the white gold insert will retail for around 200$. I have had alot of conversations with Omega techs about the easy to scratch bezel and posted this already once, I recall even here. They didn't understand that I wanted to buy a replacement bezel. Guess why?.

I have made the following experience. I was cleaning the watch quite often and tried to get rid of the scratches and I got more and more. After some time I gave up and decided I might buy a replacement bezel after mine would be too much scratched. With the time I started to relax and I found out, that just certain direct light made the bezel look scratchy.

So, since then my arm sleeves have cleaned the bezel over several months and I realized it doesn't matter. I was in a restaurant this Monday with alot of indirect lightening and the watch looked like new, out of the box, like in the picture below. The pic is a couple of weeks old and the watch is already scratched, do you see any ???.

So relax. Wear your watch, get a Microlon sponge for servecing the Titanium once in a while. To anybody else your watch will look awesome.

Other 18K watches I saw scratch as well. An 18K used Rolex Daytona looked in a shopping window also "beaten up". Any jeweler will tell you that soft gold will scratch. That's why they often recommend to couples golden mariage rings in 555 instead of 18K, because they sustain better. As said scratches in 18K will soften themselves with time and wear.

Kind regards,
Andreas

PS: Omega uses high spinning pollishing wheels for servicing scratches. Some will go off, some deeper stay in the bezel, but get softer. After one, shortly before the guarantee expires I would send it in for a check and they will do your bezel for free, if you ask them. Omega rules.