★ Bowie Knife | Ultraviolet is a top-heavy Bowie finish where Factory New carries the only major clean premium and the rest of the ladder compresses hard. Regular asks fall from $250.32 in Factory New to roughly $60 to $66 across the lower wears, while StatTrak can reshape the mid-tier numbers. This is a dark finish market built on clean-condition scarcity, simple aesthetics, and value hunting below the top tier.
★ Bowie Knife | Ultraviolet is a top-heavy Bowie finish where Factory New carries the only major clean premium and the rest of the ladder compresses hard. Regular asks fall from $250.32 in Factory New to roughly $60 to $66 across the lower wears, while StatTrak can reshape the mid-tier numbers. This is a dark finish market built on clean-condition scarcity, simple aesthetics, and value hunting below the top tier.
Ultraviolet is straightforward to price once you stop expecting the wear ladder to behave evenly. The clean top end is where most of the finish premium lives, then the lower regular tiers flatten into a value band where buyers mostly shop by entry cost. When money changes hands, the big calls are regular versus StatTrak, whether the knife is truly clean, and how much discount you get once the top bracket is gone.
Ultraviolet carries 94% popularity with Moderate liquidity at 45%, so the market knows the finish well without treating it like a fast commodity. Buyers recognize the black look and the Bowie model immediately. What slows it down is not awareness, but the fact that most interest clusters around price-sensitive entry tiers.
Regular ask is $250.32 in Factory New, $88.98 in Minimal Wear, $60.80 in Field-Tested, $66.09 in Well-Worn, and $62.62 in Battle-Scarred. Regular payout is $155.01, $69.26, $48.79, $48.19, and $48.15. StatTrak ask is $225.72, $86.23, $74.31, and $83.25 from Minimal Wear through Battle-Scarred, with payout at $95.86, $62.24, $57.42, and $59.13.
The true float range runs from 0.06 to 0.80, so Ultraviolet spans most of the normal wear ladder but does not start from a true zero-clean base. Factory New still gets a huge premium, then the rest compresses fast. Once you drop below Minimal Wear, the market starts treating the lower tiers as close substitutes.
Valve built this as a Solid Color finish with finish catalog 98 and a black-led palette. That simplicity is a major part of the appeal. Buyers are not paying for complex art or a rare branch. They are paying for a clean dark knife look, and that look matters most in Factory New.
Pattern Variants are marked No, which makes Ultraviolet easier to comp than phase or seed-sensitive knives. You do not need to hunt for a special layout or favored side. That keeps the market cleaner. Branch, wear, and correct price side do the real work here, with less noise from listing-to-listing variation.
StatTrak exists and can materially change the lower ladder. Minimal Wear StatTrak asks $225.72 against $88.98 regular, and Field-Tested StatTrak pays $62.24 against $48.79 regular. This branch does not move in a perfectly neat line, so you need tier-specific comps instead of assuming a simple premium percentage.
Souvenir is unavailable, which keeps the structure simpler. You only need to split regular from StatTrak, then decide how much the clean top tier matters relative to the flatter lower band. That helps because the finish is already minimal enough that extra provenance would only muddy the pricing logic.
The rarity is Covert, but below Factory New this knife trades more like a budget-minded Bowie than a prestige finish. Regular asks from Minimal Wear through Battle-Scarred stay between $60.80 and $88.98. The red tier label is there, but the lower market is clearly being priced through entry value.
The short-term chart is down 20.06% over 30 days, which is a sharp negative move. Over one year, the knife is down 31.55%. The all-time high is $625.00 and the all-time low is $184.00. This is a market under pressure recently, even if the broader knife floor is still intact.
For a quick cashout, start on the payout side and split Factory New from the rest immediately. Regular Factory New pays $155.01, but Minimal Wear drops to $69.26 and the lower regular tiers flatten around $48.15 to $48.79. If yours is StatTrak, check that lane directly because the payout gaps are meaningful.
Most buyers either pay for the clean top look or shop the lower regular wears as cheap Bowie entries. The regular ask gap from Factory New $250.32 to Minimal Wear $88.98 is massive. After that, Field-Tested, Well-Worn, and Battle-Scarred all sit close enough that cheapest acceptable copy often wins.
Community rating is 4.3 out of 5 from 5,500 votes, which is solid support for a stripped-down dark finish. The market knows the knife and accepts it. What it does not do is grant a huge premium across every wear tier once the cleanest bracket has already been left behind.
The listed update is Take a trip to the Canals, which gives Ultraviolet a defined place in the Bowie timeline. Buyers usually remember it as a clean dark-finish option rather than as a pattern or gem conversation. That fits the pricing: simple look, simple lane, heavy premium only at the top.
The key specs are Bowie Knife, Solid Color finish style, finish catalog 98, creator Valve, CS2 model version, and a 0.06 to 0.80 float span. Those details explain why Factory New stands out so sharply. A simple dark finish depends on clean presentation more than most complex designs do.
Start with regular versus StatTrak, isolate Factory New from the rest, then treat the lower regular wears as a compressed cluster instead of a perfect staircase. That order matters. On ★ Bowie Knife | Ultraviolet, bad pricing usually comes from overvaluing the wear names once the clean-end premium is already gone.
