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Ken Muldrew wrote-

The following quote from _The_Industrious_Revolution_ by Jan de Vries (CUP
2008) doesn't answer George's question, but it gives a context:

"European watch production rose from the tens of thousands per year at the
time of the pocket globe�s introduction [1697] to nearly 400,000 per year
in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. ... Parisian inventories
reveal that as early as 1700, 13 percent of servants and 5 percent of wage
earners owned a watch."

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Interesting stuff. Thank you, Ken. That information is all quite new to me. 
Is there any reference quoted?

Although you have the US edition of that book, supposedly from Cambridge 
University Press, would you believe that the UK edition, promised for May 
past, remains unavailable as yet. So it hasn't (yet) found its way even to 
the Bodleian library. I have just ordered a copy, which will come from the 
US. Such is the state of our once-great university publishing houses!

In the meantime, I wonder whether the text provided any more information 
about that "pocket globe", a term that's unfamiliar to me. Does the text say 
whether that was a balance-wheel and spring device, as had recently been 
invented by Huyghens and Hooke (separately)? Did it have a minute-hand?

George.

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