Brewer's: Alibi Clock

(An), 1887. A clock which strikes one hour, while the hands point to a different time, the real time being neither one nor the other.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Aliboron
Alibi (elsewhere).
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