In the eighteenth century, the fascination with automata, clocks, and mechanized furniture fostered the emergence of a new understanding of marvels, closely tied to human ingenuity. An unprecedented project for a dressing table with automata, designed for Queen María Luisa by a controversial Sevillian clockmaker, together with the eventful biography of a cabinet-dressing table produced by the firm Seddon, Sons & Shackleton, serve as the foundation for a reflection on the material agency of personalized and automated objects in shaping the image of the elites.