AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge (Well-Worn)

The AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge in Well-Worn (WW) is the fourth of five wears by cleanliness and, along with Factory New, the narrowest by float. Classified is its rank, and its collection is the Radiant Collection. Floats in this wear fall between 0.38 and 0.45, only 7% of the finish's scale.

What the AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge looks like in Well-Worn

By Valve's description, the base of the finish combines wine and white, and the trim is gold. The gold sits on the edges and stays the only metallic accent on the rifle.

A spread of 0.38 to 0.45 leaves nothing to choose between on float. Float is fixed at the drop, and two listings from this stretch differ by no more than seven hundredths.

Where the AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge came from

The Radiant Collection was released on March 31, 2025, and this skin has been part of it since the launch. Valve showed the set in the "Spring Forward" update alongside two neighbors, the Ascent Collection and the Boreal Collection. Across the three collections there are more than seventy new finishes.

In its note Valve listed the styles the sets were built from: solid colors, gold relief, camouflage and custom paint jobs. Valve itself drew this finish, and its number in the catalog is 1309.

What to check before buying

What to look at in a listing:

• stickers left by the previous owner and any applied name;


• the float value, though on a band of seven hundredths it changes little;

A lucky pattern cannot be hunted on this skin: there is only ever one.

What the AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge costs in Well-Worn

Measured against this wear, the neighboring ones cost:

• Battle-Scarred about an eighth less;


• Field-Tested about one and a half times more;


• Minimal Wear about three and a half times more;


• Factory New almost nine times more.

Of the fifteen Classified AK-47s in Well-Worn, the skin is fifth from the bottom. Cheaper are Searing Rage, Ice Coaled, The Outsiders and Phantom Disruptor, the last of them almost level. Above it stand Crane Flight and, further up the rank, Case Hardened, Jet Set and Hydroponic.

Getting the AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge

This skin is in no case. The collection is listed in the weekly reward, the Weekly Care Package, where it was entered on the day of release.

Ten skins from one rank lower in this set can be traded up into the AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge. They are Desert Eagle | Mulberry, M4A1-S | Glitched Paint and USP-S | Bleeding Edge in any combination. The collection has a single Classified skin, so the outcome is known in advance.

StatTrak and Souvenir

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge

No StatTrak version of the AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge was ever released. Souvenir packages for this finish did not exist either, since they were made only for tournament map collections. You can still assemble a Souvenir copy on your own: the Souvenir-O-Matic attaches gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to an ordinary skin from the inventory. This is why single Souvenir copies sometimes appear even where there were never any packages.

A two-tone base makes the choice simple: light stickers show well on the wine areas, and dark ones on the white.

In Well-Worn the rifle costs noticeably less than in Factory New, so a CS2 craft on it takes a smaller outlay with the stickers themselves priced the same.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge in this wear is worthwhile if:

• you want a Classified rifle cheaper than Field-Tested, but not the cheapest of the finish;


• float is secondary: the band is short, and the difference between listings is hard to detect;


• you need a Terrorist-side rifle in wine and white for CS2.

The wear of a copy is set at the drop, so the buyer gets exactly the condition the listing shows.