"working clock" is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase to refer to a clock that is functioning properly, usually one that keeps accurate time. For example, "I need to find a reliable working clock to keep me on time for my appointments."
In fact, though, it is a working clock.
It's all arranged with the precision of a smoothly working clock, which is lucky, considering the band's "one take, no edits" policy.
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".
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.
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.
We wanted actual working clocks by working artists".
You can barely see the gears in the timepiece actually moving — none of that tempus fugit nonsense often ascribed to working clocks.
In "A Show Of Hands: Working Clocks by Working Artists" at the Westport Historical Society through Jan . 12 40 local artists were invited to create their playful versions of timepieces.
In the US, that typically means about 22 more years on the work clock, so plan accordingly.
Northwestern continued to work the clock.
