The upper section is comprised of a gourd-shaped blue enamel vase decorated with gold 'longevity' (shou) characters written in six kinds of script. The lower part of the gourd is decroated with two characters reading 'great fortune' (daji). When activated, music plays, the waterfalls revolve, and the ducks swim. The fisherman waves his fishing rod, the woodcutter repeatedly throws a bundle of firewood over his shoulder and the farmer goes in and out of a cave. In the pavilion the scholar waves his fan and he doors on the vase open to reveal a figure revolving inside.

This clock is powered by a series of springs, fuses, and chains that work in tandem to control all movement. The complexity of the clock's design clearly indicates that workshops in Guangzhou during the Qianlong period were sophisticated enough to rival those in the Forbidden City. (So 182710).