Picked up a Gold Class/485-171 today....they come in different colors?

[halflife78]

Went to pickup my wife's Marfionne and grab the 485-171 that came in for me today at a local store and the 2 he had were different colors:

Is....this intentional with this knife? I grabbed the purple one because it matches the thumb stud, and I preferred the blade on it over the blue one.

Also grabbed a 490 today.

 

[Benchmade]

We have color standards for this and those are about the two extremes we could see from our process. They should always be matched left to right though. Anodized colors are very hard to control from batch to batch with aluminum or titanium.

 

[halflife78]

We have color standards for this and those are about the two extremes we could see from our process. They should always be matched left to right though. Anodized colors are very hard to control from batch to batch with aluminum or titanium.

The purple was a pleasant surprise, just wasn't sure which one is actually the expected color in general as all the ones I saw pictures of were blue.

 

[martyq]

Purple is pretty sick looking. Wonder how many are out there?