Nov. 23 (UPI) --A gold pocket watch owned by Isidor Straus, a first-class passenger who died with his wife when the famed ship sank, has sold for $2.3 million at auction. Straus, a German-born ...

A gold watch gifted to the captain of a ship which rescued more than 700 passengers and crew from the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking £1.56 million ($1.97 million). The 18-carat Tiffany & Co.

In April of 2024, an American pocket watch owned by John Jacob Astor IV—who died when the Titanic sank in April 1912—hammered for nearly $1.5 million, making it the most expensive piece of ephemera ...

A gold pocket watch, recovered from an elderly couple who drowned during the sinking of the Titanic, has sold for a record-breaking £1.78 million at auction. This sum represents the highest amount ...

LONDON (AP) — — A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic sold at auction for nearly $2 million, setting a record for memorabilia from the ship wreck.

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 is sold at auction. First class passengers Isidor and ...

The watch was recovered shortly after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Courtesy Henry Aldridge & Son Among the 2,240 passengers on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic in 1912, John Jacob ...