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Might be useful:
The Story of Watches
By Theodore Patrick Camerer Cuss
Published in 1952.
-- Richard Langley

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Ken Muldrew wrote:

>
>On 8 Jul 2008 at 19:57, George Huxtable wrote:
>
>> Responding to my question about watches used at sea at the start of the 18th
>> century, Ken Muldrew quoted from _The_Industrious_Revolution_ by Jan de
>> Vries (CUP 2008)
>>
>>  "[deletia] ... Parisian inventories reveal
>> that as early as 1700, 13 percent of servants and 5 percent of wage earners
>> owned a watch."
>>
>> and I had asked for details about that "pocket globe" and for any quoted
>> references.
>
>The reference for the Parisian inventories is:
>
>Daniel Roche, Le Peuple de Paris. Essais sur la culture populaire au XVIIIe siecle
>(Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1981), p. 226.
>
>I forgot to include it in my first reply...sorry about that.
>
>Ken Muldrew.
>
>>
>


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