The price was nearly 10 times the high estimate established by British auction house Aldridge & Son.
A gold pocket watch that belonged to the Titanic’s wealthiest passenger has sold for almost $1.5 million, over seven times more than what it was predicted to sell. The watch, which belonged to ...
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 ...
A pocket watch that belonged to the wealthiest passenger aboard the Titanic was auctioned in England Saturday for $1.46 million (£1.17 million), breaking the record for an object linked to the ...
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 Saturday. Henry Aldridge and Son, a Wiltshire auction house known for ...
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 ...
A gold pocket watch retrieved from the body of the Titanic's wealthiest passenger has been sold for a record-breaking £1.2 million (€1.4m) to a private collector in the US. The auction took ...
John Jacob Astor went down with the Titanic after seeing his wife Madeleine onto a lifeboat (Picture: PA/Getty) A gold pocket watch which was recovered from the body of the Titanic’s richest ...
A gold pocket watch worn by the richest passenger aboard the Titanic when the ill-fated ocean liner sank was sold at auction on Saturday for a record-breaking sum of nearly $1.5 million.