Re: Reference
I've dealt with clockwork automatons a few times, though in my fiction they've had biological components.
The first was a human brain and spinal column set into a clockwork framework, a living doll, sort of, that powered itself through the accumulation of galvanic energy generated through its movements. Sort of a perpetual-motion machine.
The second were the cogsmen, corpses fitted with mechanical control mechanisms slaved to the same signal, acting almost as a single organism.