I don't see the newest offering as overly collectible. If nothing else I see it as a production yet to come. Eki has done that with the Tiger and the KACK. And pretty much any other knife they have made outside of the zero grinds. A one/done run of 60, now back again. In less than a year.
Make a production 6. And see how that sells, but where are the unique designs?
You can bet this will be the same way. Therefore not collectible. And incidentally who has serial numbers below 7? Where are they? Who has them? Why? I preordered multiple kacks when it was supposed to be one run of 69. Who has serial numbers lower than 7/9????
Eca used to have those too, prototypes, true low numbers, now you get a shirt.
When you look at some of the past ECA knives and offerings they were unique in true ways. One offs, hand ground, zero ground. Persian, HMMV, Azek Marud, immediately come to mind.
Which brings me to the lottery, you get drawn, and Ernie puts your names back on top of the pile for yet another shot? Really? Let the rest of the folks have a crack that are in there.