Sentence examples for like a mechanical watch from inspiring English sources

"If you look at a Bombe machine, it's very much like a mechanical watch," said Mr. English, who added that the machine had inspired the design of the watch.

Like a mechanical watch, if one gear breaks down, the watch doesn't work.

Since then, we haven't heard all that much about the square watches from those two manufacturers, but everybody is still waiting for the Moto 360 and now LG has joined the fray with its own round G Watch R. The G Watch R looks very nice in LG's renders — almost like a mechanical watch.

Tinkering with the immune system is also a bit like tinkering with a mechanical watch: Fiddle with one part, and you may disrupt the whole mechanism.

Like intertwining cogwheels in a mechanical watch, a pool of periodically expressed genes keeps time in a tiny region of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

While the positive feedback loop drives the clock like the (balance) spring in a mechanical watch the negative time-delay circuit represents the pulse generator defining a minimal time unit and precision of the clock like the pendulum fallback or the movement of the balance wheel in a classical mechanic watch.

The $1,200 model includes a mechanical watch.