Received my second Diplomat Double Metallic Winder from Amazon two weeks ago. I've had the first for about six weeks now. The first one runs at 8 Turns Per Minute---the new one runs 7 1/2 TPM. No big deal!

Both of them are absolutely quiet when running. The only noise I've heard from either of them is when I had a heavy Tag or one of my Invicta Dive watches in and it was flopping around a bit. I put one of the Large Watch Adapters on and that snugged it up--no more flopping! I leave the adapter on and my smaller, lighter watches fit over it just fine. The adapter doesn't come off when I remove the watch either, it only comes off when I take it off.

I assume (yeah, I know about assuming<G>) that there is one motor at the bottom and the top winder works off a belt and pulley. For this reason I put the lighter watch on the top winder. If you've seen the guts of one of these, I'd like to know.

Summing up--if you need a winder this is a very good performing unit a a very cost-efective price. If I need a third winder it'd certainly be another of these.