clock watch

noun

a watch that strikes the hours. Compare repeater (def. 3).

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Origin:
1675–85

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"We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about."

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