In Counter-Strike’s glove lineup, Eclipse is the kind of black that players recognize instantly. There is no busy print or neon fade—just the Torland motorcycle-kit attitude carried straight into a round. Valve’s own blurb is blunt: this is the original classic black that put Torland on the map.

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If you like loadouts that stay quiet and read as one dark block from wrist to fingertip, Eclipse is often the first name you bookmark. Its rarity is Ancient, placing it among the heavier hitters in the glove family. That status keeps attention and turnover healthy, and prices still swing with float and overall look more than with any pattern index.

Release date

Eclipse arrived on 28 November 2016, during the Brothers In Arms update—the same window that brought glove drops into everyday matchmaking talk. Veterans still point to that period as the start of the “open gloves” era, and this skin remains one of its clearest symbols.

Designer

Valve designed and shipped it in-house. It is official stock, not a Community Workshop submission that later got picked up.

Which case

You can pull it from the Glove Case, sharing the same drop table as the other gloves that launched alongside glove gameplay.

What defines the skin

It sits in the Motorcycle Gloves set, display name Eclipse, internal ID motorcycle_basic_black. Wear runs 0.06 to 0.80, so you will see everything from nearly factory-clean pairs to heavily road-worn ones. The art direction is black-first: stitching, padding, and shell read through shape and material breakup instead of a graphic that steals the inspect camera. Its reputation is consistency—your hands look like one intentional choice—which is exactly where it diverges from louder gloves that reward pattern hunting.

What to look for

Before you buy, skim recent listings on C5GAME or the Steam Community Market and note how sellers photograph black leather. At lower float, buyers care about an even depth of color and smooth transitions across knuckles and palms—any milky patch or uneven dye shows up fast on monochrome gear. At higher float, the pair often turns greyer, with more obvious scuffing along edges; some players prefer that because it reads like real mileage rather than a showroom prop.

Eclipse works whether you are running a full dark tactical kit or using the wrists to calm down a saturated AWPer or knife. Spin it in-game a few times and watch how wear lands in the finger gaps, on the knuckle guards, and across the palm—thumbnail screenshots lie more on black gloves than on patterned ones. The design is simple; the condition spread is not.