I have to agree that this whole steampunk thing is getting rather absurd. I'm about sick of everything with a gear or made of brass eliciting an "OMG STEAMPUNK!".
Its a beautiful sculpture to place next to your astrolabe collection.
The amazing thing would be if it could pour the wine while not overshooting or undershooting. Tilting the bottle too fast gushes, too slow dribbles. So it presumably still requires an observer at the crank.