change my bezel for my 5065. As you, I also treated it roughly as I believe it should be 'used'.Although I realized that with a stainless steel watch scratches will happen more frequently, mine had a very bad dent on when I dropped it. I couldnt bear to see the dent and had it sent to my PP service center. They said that it could not be polished up and I had to change to a new bezel. Three months now and as they say " you only miss something when its gone ".....
I would still 'USE' it , when it returns.