Known as the Highcliffe Castle Organ Clock it was made by George Pyke, London, England about 1765. It is not known who bought it but we do know that sometime between 1810 and 1834 it came into the possession of Thomas Weeks' Museum on Tichtbourne Street in London. It next is known to have been purchased at the Weeks' Museum auction in 1834 and placed into Highcliffe Castle, Hampshire, England where it remained until 1949. It was then bought at a Christie's auction and remained in England until 1976 when it was again auctioned off by Christie's and went to Germany. It remained there until the present owner bought it in 1996 and brought it to the USA.

The clock has a simple time movement which is run by a gut fusee. The massive chain driven fusee organ movement runs an automaton procession across the middle portion of the painted dial and plays one of ten selectable tunes every four hours on a wooden pinned cylinder. Each tune is played 4 times through. There are three selectable registers; one rank of wooden pipes and two ranks of metal pipes. In total there are 48 pipes. The tunes are all English, Irish or Scottish dance tunes and jigs including an early version of "The Bear Went 'Round the Mountain; etc."
The clock is 22" wide, 47" high to the top of the finial, and 17" deep. The interior of the base cabinet of the clock itself is mirrored with the original mirrors and probably was used to hold decanters of sherry or other alcohols. The dial is reputed to have been painted by Johann Zoffany, a German/English painter known to have worked for a number of clock makers including George Pyke (b. 1733, Frankfurt, d. 1810, Strand-on-the-Green). The pedestal base of the clock is modern and was commissioned by the present owner. Originally, the clock may have been the centerpiece of a large dining room and may have stood on a massive buffet.