The theme of the clock is based around an Australian vineyard where a group of monks tender the vines & organise the making & bottling of their wines.

The clock facade represents a monastery where the grapes are trodden & the wine is bottled and tasted by the public. On the hour three very solemn monks come out from the left hand side & in prayerful fashion head for the belfry. From the right hand side a little fat monk, who is a bit of a rogue, scampers to the belfry just in time to toll the bells. Westminster chimes are rung & the hour is struck.

As the monks return a door lowers revealing the making of the wine where three ladies tread the grapes & one man is bottling whilst another hammers in the corks. On the other side six people are sampling the wine when a waiter appears to refill their glasses. While they are not looking he turns around, looks both ways & has a surreptitious drink from the bottle.

Above this, from the ballroom, emerge four couples in evening dress who individually toast the audience in eight different languages, including an Aboriginal dialect, & then altogether in English.

During the whole performance we see the little fat monk appear in the winemaking scene filling his glass & moving around the monastery appearing at various windows.

At the finale the three monks come out again & the little fat monk farewells the audience.

The background music was especially composed for the clock & consists of Gregorian style chant & polka music.

The clock is about 12ft (4m) high & about 9ft (3m) wide. The animation throughout is all done with cams & levers driven by 24v AC motors, as are the individual timers.

The music, toasts & sound effects were all specially recorded & reproduced on a Roland2000.

The starting of each scene is controlled by a PLC & the clock is a mains driven stepping motor controlled by computer.

The dial is just over 3ft (1m) in diameter.

There are 33 figures, 38 motors, 73 micro-switches & 17 lights.