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  • Gold pocket watch of richest man on Titanic fetches record-breaking £1.2m

    Amount paid for businessman John Jacob Astor’s watch is highest ever for Titanic memorabilia, auctioneers sayA gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of the richest man on the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking £1.2m.The watch was sold on Saturday to a private collector in the US at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, for the highest amount ever for Titanic memorabilia, the auctioneers said. Continue reading

  • Gold pocket watch found on body of Titanic's richest passenger is up for auction

    A pocket watch that belonged to the wealthiest passenger aboard the Titanic is up for auction and could sell for as much as 150,000 pounds, or nearly $190,000. The auction for John Jacob Astor IV's 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch begins Saturday, with a starting bid of 60,000 pounds, according to auction house Henry Aldridge & Son. The watch, engraved with the initials JJA, was found along with Astor's body when his remains were recovered several days after the Titanic sank. He was also found...

  • Gold watch worn by richest passenger aboard Titanic to be sold at auction

    A gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the wealthy Astor family and the richest man aboard the Titanic, will go up for sale at an auction of memorabilia from the doomed ship. Astor was one of around 1,500 people who died when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg. His pregnant wife, Madeleine, survived. The watch is among a number of notable items on offer at auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire, England, on Saturday, including the valise that held...