Gold Watch Salvaged From Titanic Fetches $1.5 Million at Auction
It may not be Rose’s (fictional) blue diamond, but a gold pocket watch found in the wreckage of the Titanic sold for £1.175 million (about $1.5 million) at an
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It may not be Rose’s (fictional) blue diamond, but a gold pocket watch found in the wreckage of the Titanic sold for £1.175 million (about $1.5 million) at an
UK News: The winning bid, placed by an American buyer, far surpassed the auctioneer's initial estimate, which ranged between £100,000 and £150,000. The watch,
A pocket watch that belonged to the wealthiest passenger aboard RMS Titanic sold for £1,175 million (€1,38 million, US$1,46 million) at an auction on Saturday, smashing a pre-sale estimate. Henry Aldridge & Son, the auction house, had anticipated it would sell for between £100,000/£150,000.
Its auction price for the watch worn by the richest man aboard the Titanic, is the highest amount ever paid for a single item from the doomed liner.
A US buyer won the bidding war, smashing the auctioneer's pre-sale estimate of between £100,000 and £150,000. The watch, engraved with the initials JJA, belonged to the US business magnate John Jacob Astor.