A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of one of the Titanic’s wealthiest passengers has sold for a “record-breaking” £1.78 million at an auction in Wiltshire. The 18-carat Jules Jurgensen watch belonged to Isidor Straus, a prominent American businessman, politician and co-owner of Macy’s. Str»»»

A gold pocket watch once owned by an elderly couple who drowned in the Titanic disaster has sold for an astonishing £1.78million – smashing auction estimates and setting a new world record for Titanic memorabilia. Auctioneers confirmed it eclipsed the previous £1.56million record set last year for »»»

A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of one of the richest passengers on the Titanic has fetched a "record-breaking" £1.78m at auction. Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were among the more than 1,500 people who died when the vessel travelling from Southampton to New York sank after hitting an »»»

Isidor and Ida Straus are remembered as two of the highest-profile victims of the Titanic disaster, and among the few first-class passengers to perish. The pair, who were depicted in James Cameron’s Oscar-winning 1997 movie “Titanic,” were offered seats in one of the lifeboats but refused to be sep»»»

An 18-karat gold pocket watch recovered from the body of one of the Titanic‘s wealthiest and most high-profile passengers is expected to sell for more than US$1 million at auction, according to a British auctioneering house. The more than century-old timepiece belonged to Isidor Straus, who, along »»»

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