★ Flip Knife | Doppler (Factory New) Black Pearl

Skin overview

★ Flip Knife | Doppler (Black Pearl) pairs a back-swept Persian-style blade with a dark, glossy marbled finish in near-black and deep violet. In Factory New the candy coat is unbroken, so the swirls stay sharp and the purple sheen shifts cleanly as the blade turns in the light.

Item type: knife. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Anodized Multicolored: several colours in the metal coating; it wears little, the colours only dull with use.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear.

Appearance in Factory New

The paint covers the whole blade, from the acute curved tip to the serrated section near the pivot, in a marbled pattern of black and silver tones under a dark blue-violet candy coat. The marbling forms soft smoky swirls, and the violet tint is strongest where light hits the flat of the blade. The pivot screw picks up the same purple tone, while the handle keeps its olive green textured grip with diagonal grooves and a lanyard slot. On worn copies the tip, the cutting edge and the teeth of the serration lose the coating first, followed by the spine near the pivot.

The coating is intact across the whole blade, including the tip and the serrated teeth. The violet gloss reads evenly both in inspect and at normal distance, with no breaks in the marbling. The pivot and handle look exactly as in the clean render. Copies near the top of the range can show a barely visible speck at the very tip.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The float of ★ Flip Knife | Doppler Black Pearl ranges from 0 to 0.08; the Factory New quality covers 0–0.07 — 88% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Chroma Case (on sale since Jan 8, 2015)
• Chroma 2 Case (on sale since Apr 15, 2015)
• Chroma 3 Case

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the range, since lower values keep the tip and serration clean.
• Look at how the marbling is laid out on the blade, because the swirl placement differs between copies.
• Inspect the tip and the serrated teeth in close-up, as these are the first places to lose paint.
• For a StatTrak™ copy, confirm the counter and any name tag suit you before buying.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the dark violet finish completely unbroken in inspect.
• Players who spend time on inspect animations and notice the tip up close.
• The choice for buyers who want this phase without compromise.