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As with most questions about black holes, there's not really a simple answer to that.

In practice, if you dropped an actual clock (or any other material object) into a black hole, tidal forces would tear it apart long before it reached the event horizon, let alone the singularity.

From the point of view of an outside observer (which is what I assume you're interested in), the clock would appear to be running slow before it was torn apart. If we imagine a magic clock with infinite tensile strength, it would appear to get slower and slower as it approached the event horizon, and would finally stop just as it reached the horizon.

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