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Titanic Passenger's Pocket Watch Expected to Fetch $2.3m at Auction
The Straus family is auctioning a gold pocket watch expected to fetch £800,000 and a letter written aboard Titanic, preserving a century-old legacy.
- Later this month the Straus family will consign a gold pocket watch and letter to Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire for auction.
- The 18‑carat Jules Jurgensen watch was recovered from Isidor Straus's body after the sinking and returned to his family, passing down until Kenneth Hollister Straus had its movement repaired.
- Estimated at least �800,000, the watch and auction estimates place the letter at �150,000, with last year’s Carpathia captain's watch selling for �1.56m.
- Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said the sale retells Isidor Straus's story and called the Straus archive iconic, with the watch and letter among the most important Titanic items for collectors and museums.
- Refusing separation, Ida Straus and Isidor Straus were last seen together on deck chairs as the pocket watch stopped at 2:20am and Mrs Straus's letter was postmarked at Queenstown, Ireland.
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Watch owned by Titanic couple expected to sell for more than £800k
A gold pocket watch recovered from an elderly couple who drowned during the sinking of the Titanic is expected to fetch at least £800,000 when it…
·Swindon, United Kingdom
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The watch is expected to fetch around 8.5 million kroner.
·Copenhagen, Denmark
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The watch, an 18-carat Jules Jurgensen, stopped at 2:20 a.m., the time the ship was lost in the waters of the Atlantic.
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