It is a cheap swiss knock off. People call it the stealth, but that winds up as a generalization for swiss knock offs. The real swiss has a round motor and has swiss made and a serial number on the bottom. The stealth isn't a bad machine as it won't scare you away from rotaries. My wife has two one long stroke and one medium stroke. she likes the long stroke better. My advice is use it till it dies and buy a better machine when you can afford it. The real swiss will almost definitely make that look like a cheap machine in contrast. But there are a lot of machines out there, have fun trying them all. Remember if you buy a new machine and don't like it, you can most likely sell it or trade it here.. most likely not the stealth though.