If you can see into the pivot area with a flashlight, brass cage bearings are CQI, plastic are the original. Info on that in this Spyderco Byte issue https://mailchi.mp/spyderco/spyderco-byte-january-2018?e=963d2ec1ef. From your box date code (2016) it is probably pre CQI
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