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What does it mean?
A watch without hands is claimed to be accurate but provides no time.
In plain terms
My watch has no hands and cannot tell time.
What can you take from it?
Useless items can be described as functional through irony.

Where it applies

  • describing a broken object
  • deadpan humor

Putting it to work

  • satire
  • joke

Questions to consider

  • What claims of quality do you distrust?
  • How do you define a useful tool?

Another view

Accuracy without function is meaningless.

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