Yes, the ceramic is fragile. I heard some store cracked the link while sizing a ceramic finissimo and had to send it in for replacement under warranty. I have to agree that watch would look just as good without the moon )
they are too hard to avoid scratches; even if i had a PVD Panerai, it would probably be a safe queen and not see much wrist time. So for now..non-PVD is the main direction of the collection going