Henry shares the tragic tale of a Titanic passenger ✓ A man who perished saving his wife ✓ But whose watch survived ✓ ...
A golden watch belonging to the Titanic's richest passenger and a violin bag belonging to the bandmaster have gone under the ...
The watch was owned by John Jacob Astor IV, a businessman who died when the Titanic sank in 1912.
Astor is well known as the richest passenger aboard the RMS Titanic and was thought to be among the richest people in the ...
The Titanic is unsinkable at auction. On April 27, a gold watch that survived the sinking of the White Star Line ship in 1912 sold for £1.2m (€1.4m) at Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire, England. It ...
A gold watch worn by the richest man aboard the Titanic sold for a record-breaking $1.5 million at an auction in England on ...
A gold pocket watch belonging to the richest person aboard the "Titanic" sold for a record $1.5 million at a Henry Aldridge & ...
A pocket watch that belonged to the wealthiest passenger aboard RMS Titanic sold for £1,175 million (€1,38 million, US$1,46 ...
A gold pocket watch that belonged to the Titanic’s wealthiest passenger has sold for almost $1.5 million, over seven times ...
A pocket watch owned by John Jacob Astor IV, the wealthiest Titanic passenger, was auctioned for £1.175 million, far exceeding the estimated £100,000-£150,000. Astor's watch, along with other ...
Even before it sank, the RMS Titanic was a symbol of wealth and luxury. Today, it remains so, with many artifacts recovered from the wreckage the subject of bidding wars. On Saturday, a 14-carat ...
Andrew Aldridge, the auctioneer, described the prices fetched by these Titanic artifacts as "absolutely incredible", attributing the high demand to both their historical significance and the ...