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John Jacob Astor IV's pocket watch is up for auction. It was found along with his body after the Titanic sank. Henry Aldridge & Son Astor was on the Titanic with wife, Madeleine.
A pocket watch found with the body of a Titanic passenger who died in the 1912 disaster is expected to sell for up to $66,000 at an upcoming auction.
A pocket watch that once belonged to John Jacob Astor IV is up for auction in Britain this weekend. CorinMesser/BNPS/MEGA The starting bid for the haunting piece is £60,000, or roughly $75,000 ...
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 shipwreck. The 18-carat Tif… ...
Almost four decades after it was stolen from a Buffalo, New York, museum, a pocket watch carried by the 26th president, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, was returned to his family home on Long ...
After lying hidden beneath the depths of Lake Michigan for over a century, a historic gold pocket watch - lost in a deadly shipwreck - has finally made it home to the United Kingdom.
April 29, 2024 A Gold Pocket Watch Recovered From the ‘Titanic’ Just Sold for a Record $1.5 Million The Waltham timepiece belonged to the wealthiest passenger on the world-famous liner.
When the Lady Elgin sank on Lake Michigan in 1860, British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram was lost to the deep, but 165 years later his pocket watch has returned home. The steamship ...
(JTA) — A pocket watch, frozen in time when the Titanic went underwater, is set to sell at auction Saturday, with an expected sales price of nearly $100,000. That’s nearly 30 times the value ...
My father's pocket watch - the brand is Operarius, antimagnetic and made in the early 1900s in Switzerland. The engraved case is an antique silver alloy that opens with a push crown.
A pocket watch belonging to the late British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram is now on display at the Boston Guildhall museum in the U.K. — 165 years after it was lost The watch sank in ...
June 12, 2023 This $5 Million Roger Smith Pocket Watch Just Became the Most Expensive British Timepiece Ever Sold Phillips and Christie's both had great weeks—but Roger Smith is this auction ...