What time is it? Watches and horology

Is the bezel aluminium?

Mr muscle oven cleaner should fuck it up in short order if it's aluminium (as in etched and then a puddle of goop).

what's the finish? Anodising, paint, ceramic? If ano, then a UV bulb might fade it.
Ceramic, it would be fun to see if heating with a gas torch then plunging into ice water would crack the finish like spider web.

Alu bezel. Not ceramic. You can get an ocean one in ceramic but fortunately this is anodised alu I think.

I am definitely NOT doing Mr Muscle. I'd like to simply fade the black not liquidise it.