The phrase "a working clock" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a clock that is functioning properly and keeping accurate time.
Example: "I need to buy a new battery for my wall clock; it's not a working clock anymore."
Alternatives: "a functioning clock" or "an operational clock".
In fact, though, it is a working clock.
Eventually, it winds down and comes to a stop, but while it's swinging, the illusion of a working clock is quite real!
What's amazing is that Marclay has stitched together these thousands of brief sequences so that the piece functions as a working clock.
Real duty, he learned, is more like living inside a working clock — keeping watch by a relentless schedule, with sleep parcelled into shifts of a few hours and conversations carried on in fifteen-second intervals between foghorn blasts.
In his theatre book Great Reckonings in Little Rooms, Bert O States adds to this list a working clock, running water and fire – all things he describes as "happenings taking place within the aesthetic world".
Dr Wineland has, however, built a working clock with his atoms and it is the most accurate clock in history.The escapement of this clock consists of two entangled atoms, one of which is used to read the inherent vibrations of the other.
7 | Brass Sun: The Wheel of Worlds by Ian Edginton and INJ Culbard (2000AD Graphic Novels) A universe built as an actual working clock faces destruction in this visionary steampunk series.
It's all arranged with the precision of a smoothly working clock, which is lucky, considering the band's "one take, no edits" policy.
It's a real, working clock, too.
The newly adopted faith, they imagine, is a shining, perfectly balanced system, an intricately worked clock where the cosmos turns to tell the time and the cuckoo comes out singing every Sunday.
We wanted actual working clocks by working artists".
