Diplomat

Diplomat Black Wood Double Watch Winder with Black Leather Interior and 4 Program Settings

• Winds 2 watches on 1 turntable, with extra storage for 3 watches
• Clockwise, auto swap or counter-clockwise rotations
• Four different program settings

Product Description

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This Diplomat specially designed black wood double automatic watch winder box will keep your favorite automatic watches wound and ready for when you need them. This watch winder also has storage space for 3 watches. A silent motor keeps the watches moving on turntable. Its wooden exterior has Black wood finish and see-through side and top windows to show your timepieces. The interior is lined with smooth black faux leather. This watch winder will rotate clockwise, auto swap or counter-clockwise which will meet most automatic watch requirements and has 4 different program settings. Knob program settings: 1st stop: unit is off. 2nd stop: winder will rotate clockwise for 2 minutes and rest for 6 minutes. 3rd stop: winder will rotate counter-clockwise for 2 minutes and rest for 6 minutes. 4th stop: winder will rotate clockwise for 2 minutes, rest for 6 minutes then it will rotate counter-clockwise for 2 minutes, rest for 6 minutes. 5th stop: winder will rotate clockwise for 5 minutes then counter-clockwise for 5 minutes. This cycle will repeat continuously for 3 hours then rest for 9 hours..

Product Description

This Diplomat specially designed black wood double automatic watch winder box will keep your favorite automatic watches wound and ready for when you need them. This watch winder also has storage space for 3 watches. A silent motor keeps the watches moving on turntable. Its wooden exterior has Black wood finish and see-through side and top windows to show your timepieces. The interior is lined with smooth black faux leather. This watch winder will rotate clockwise, auto swap or counter-clockwise which will meet most automatic watch requirements and has 4 different program settings.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B002ZB87ZM
• Item model number: 31-424
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #27 in Watches > Accessories > Watch Winders

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fine, quiet watch winder, missing one desired setting, but overall a winner, April 29, 2010

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D. B. Spalding (Korova Multimedia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Diplomat Black Wood Double Watch Winder with Black Leather Interior and 4 Program Settings (Watch)

I received this watch winder for my birthday, and is a fine case for valuable or attractive watches. Someone reviewing another Diplomat case complained that the case is not wood, but plastic ... I think that's erroneous. This case is heavy, clearly made of wood, but with a high gloss, black piano finish. It even comes with a dust cloth for cleaning it (for your watches, I'd recommend something like a washable 3M Microfiber Lens Cleaning Cloth or 3M Microfiber Electronics Cleaning Cloth to take skin oils off).

The unit is whisper quiet, barely audible when it's spinning. The motor is fairly slow, 8 RPM or so. If my math is correct (it's probably not), the 2 minute turn 6 minute wait cycles would spin/wind the watch 1530 times over a 12 hour period. The method that spins 5 minutes clockwise, then 5 minutes counterclockwise, repeated for 3 hours and then "sleeping" for 9 hours, would spin/wind a watch roughly 1543 times in a 12 hour period. I only wish it had a setting for winding a watch intermittently (e.g. 2 minutes on, then 8 minutes off), then sleeping for 9 - 24 hours. Use of a digital timer on the outlet may accomplish that. (The winder comes with an AC adapter, but will run on two AA batteries as well.)

If your automatic watch has a failsafe mechanism which stops winding the mainspring when it's "fully wound" (and almost all modern automatics do), this device won't overwind your watch. But consider that running a watch continuously will put more wear and tear on it than if you let it run down, and start it up again and set it when you put back on (this applies to those who have more than 2-3 automatics, and change watches more often than changing their underwear). So keeping a watch fully wound 24/7 in a case like this is probably going to accelerate the need for a periodic servicing by a watchmaker.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Piano Finish - Very Quiet, October 18, 2010

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marcuswillbe - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Diplomat Black Wood Double Watch Winder with Black Leather Interior and 4 Program Settings (Watch)

Great watch winder for the price. Label on top is cheap looking but this is cosmetic. Motor works nicely and is super quiet. Finish is beautiful. Drawbacks, two watches sit very close to each other so 2 watches on rotating platform (44mm+)touch each other. Luckly I always have one on, and the other on my wrist. Other draw back, big wristed bands (>7in) end up with watch touching lid when lid is closed. Takes some careful adjustment when setting watch on platform to make sure watch clears glass face when rotating.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nice looking winder... but doesn't work well, October 4, 2010

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Jon - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Diplomat Black Wood Double Watch Winder with Black Leather Interior and 4 Program Settings (Watch)

I must say that this is a very nice looking watch winder. It has a beautiful piano black finish, and very nice leather interior, but the most important part is lacking... the motor that rotates this thing is worthless. They went cheap on the most important part. This is my second watch winder mind you, after sending back the first one after a week because I thought it was defective. The first couple of days it works quietly, then it starts making a whining noise, and then it makes sounds like something is loose inside. The exact same thing happened with my replacement. So my advice would be not to waste your money on this product, unless you want a shiny pretty box that doesn't work.