US EditionTitanic Passenger's Pocket Watch Fetches £1.78m at Auction
The 18-carat gold pocket watch, recovered from Isidor Straus after the Titanic sank, sold for a world record £1.78 million during a £3 million Titanic memorabilia auction.
- A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of Isidor Straus, one of the richest passengers on the Titanic, fetched £1.78 million at auction, a 'record-breaking' price.
- Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were among the over 1,500 people who died when the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg on April 14, 1912.
- The pocket watch, engraved with Straus' initials and believed to be a gift from his wife, stopped at 2:20 am, the moment the Titanic disappeared beneath the waves.
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In London, with more than two million euros (1.78 million pounds) the highest amount has been paid for a Titanic remnant. This is an 18-carat, golden pocket watch of a married couple who drowned at the sinking of the ship in 1912. The fate of Isidor and Ida Straus was world famous by James Cameron's Titanic film, which shows the pair arm-in-arm lying on a bed while the ship sinks. At that time, about 1500 passengers died when the Titanic went do…
Isidor and Ida Straus were last seen sitting side by side on deck chairs on the Titanic when the ship sank. Now Isidor Straus' pocket watch, which was found in the wreck, has been sold for a record price of 22 million kronor.
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An gold pocket watch that belonged to a passenger who died on the Titanic has sold at £1.78million at auction, passing all previous sales of memorabilia from the ill-fated vessel.The 18-carat timepiece exceeded the former record of £1.56million, the price of a different gold pocket watch, which was presented to the captain of a ship that rescued more than 700 passengers from the liner. The record breaking Jules Jurgensen watch was the property o…
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