US EditionTitanic Passenger's Pocket Watch Fetches £1.78m at Auction
The watch, a gift from Ida Straus, sold for £1.78 million at auction in Wiltshire, setting a new record for Titanic memorabilia and driving total sales to about £3 million.
- 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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When the body of Isidor Straus was recovered from the North Atlantic in 1912, his coat contained a clock whose hands were frozen at 2 o'clock 20. Now the gold piece has been auctioned at a record price.
More than 100 years have passed since the first-class passenger Isidor Strauss refused to abandon — before other men — the Titanic. His wife refused to separate from him. Both drowned in the early morning of April 15, 1912 while the transatlantic was sinking. Several personal items were recovered from Strauss’ body that were returned to the family, including a pocket watch with the hour stopped at 2.20. This particular gold object has been sold …
Other unique artifacts were also sold at the auction.
The pocket watch of Isidore Strauss, an American businessman who perished on the Titanic together with his wife, was sold for more than two million dollars.
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