The phrase "a clockwork model" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a system or mechanism that operates in a precise, predictable, and efficient manner, often likened to the workings of a clock.
Example: "The organization functions like a clockwork model, with each department working seamlessly together to achieve common goals."
Alternatives: "a mechanical model" or "a systematic model".
In Joseph Wright of Derby's painting The Orrery (about 1766), a candle has been positioned at the centre of a clockwork model of the solar system.
He also made astronomical devices for the French Academy of Sciences, and, for Charles Boyle, 4th earl of Orrery, he originated the device now called the orrery, a clockwork model showing the motions of the planets around the Sun.
There was a clockwork model on the table in front of you, in this virtual world, and you could walk up to it, and turn it around or walk around it, and you could look at all the different moving parts inside and look through it.
Science today shows us a very different universe than the clockwork model imagined by Isaac Newton in his description of gravity.
Instead of the causal interconnectedness of the clockwork model, marketplace and consumers operate with a degree of uncertainty, complexity, and unpredictability [29].
The groundwork for a wholistic view of nature already existed, the Romantics challenged the clockwork model; in the United States, worry about the misuse of nature went back as far as Fenimore Cooper and Thoreau.
Otherwise, a step size of 1 bp would be obtained (this corresponds to the Clockwork Model with kfast/ kslow=1, which is discussed below and in Figure 6A).
Even more ubiquitous is cult novel A Clockwork Orange.
Johnny wanted the artwork to conceptually refer to the A Clockwork Orange film, released in 1971.
Other authors have drawn inspiration from local vernacular sayings, like the London Cockney saying "queer as a clockwork orange" that inspired Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange.[9].
During the exhibition, which ended March 31, Socialist Realist paintings of revolutionary leaders that are part of the Chinese museum's permanent collection were displayed alongside marble statues of the Greek goddess Aphrodite and early European clockwork models of the solar system.
