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Titanic gold pocket watch sells for £1.17 million
NEW DELHI: A gold watch discovered on the wealthiest passenger aboard the ill-fated Titanic was sold for an astonishing £1.17 million ($1.46 million) at an auction in England. Henry Aldridge & Son, the auctioneers, declared this to be the highest amount ever fetched by an item associated with the infamous 1912 tragedy.The winning bid, placed by an American buyer, far surpassed the auctioneer's initial estimate, which ranged between £100,000 and £150,000. The watch, bearing the engraved initials...
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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...
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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...