CZ75-Auto | Chalice (Factory New)

Skin overview

CZ75-Auto | Chalice is a two-tone anodized finish: a royal blue slide over an amber-gold frame, both laid on a chrome base. In Factory New the candy coat is unbroken, so the blue stays deep and glossy and the gold frame reflects light evenly across the grip area. This is the grade for buyers who want the contrast between the two colours exactly as designed.

Item type: pistol. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

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

Other qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear.

Appearance in Factory New

The slide is coated in a transparent royal blue over chrome, giving it a bright, metallic sheen along its full length. The frame, trigger guard, trigger, hammer and controls are candied in amber, so the whole lower half reads as polished gold. The grip panels and the extended magazine stay in plain grey metal, and the threaded barrel extension is dark, which frames the two main colours. There is no pattern as such: the skin relies on the clean split between blue and gold. On worn copies the anodized layer thins first on sharp edges such as the slide corners, the muzzle end and the front of the frame, letting the chrome base show through.

In Factory New the blue and amber coats are intact on every part of the pistol. Copies near the top of the range can carry a barely visible scuff on the slide edge, but it only shows on close inspection. At normal distance in game the slide reads as a solid, saturated blue and the frame as clean gold. The grips and magazine look untouched.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The float of CZ75-Auto | Chalice ranges from 0 to 0.1; the Factory New quality covers 0–0.07 — 70% 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

CZ75-Auto | Chalice belongs to The Cobblestone Collection, which holds 15 skins.

It drops from:

• Atlanta 2017 Cobblestone Souvenir Package
• Boston 2018 Cobblestone Souvenir Package
• Cologne 2016 Cobblestone Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2014 Cobblestone Souvenir Package
• DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 Cobblestone Souvenir Package
• ESL One Cologne 2014 Cobblestone Souvenir Package

And 4 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

Price by quality

Among 10 skins of the CZ75-Auto in the Restricted grade and this quality, this skin is the dearest.

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Which stickers suit it

Gold, holo and foil stickers in yellow or blue tones blend well with the amber frame and the blue slide. Keeping stickers on the frame preserves the uninterrupted blue of the slide, while a single blue sticker on the gold area adds contrast without clutter.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the wear range, since copies at the low end show no scuffs on the slide edges.
• Inspect the slide corners and the muzzle end, as these are the first places where the blue coat gives way to chrome.
• Look at the front of the frame and the trigger guard for small marks in the amber.
• Check applied stickers and a name tag, and for Souvenir copies look at which stickers are applied and where they sit on the slide and frame.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the blue and gold coats without any marks.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean base for gold or blue sticker combinations.
• Factory New is the choice when the condition of every edge matters.