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Waltham gold pocket watch auctioned for a record-breaking $1.485 Million
The pocket watch of the richest man on the Titanic – recovered when his body was fished out of the Atlantic seven days after the tragedy – was sold a record-breaking $1.5 million on Saturday 27th of March 2024.
The timepiece belonged to John Jacob Astor IV, a US business magnate who was among more than 1,500 people who died when the ship struck an iceberg in the early hours of April 15, 1912.
His 14-carat gold Waltham watch was sold at Henry Aldridge & Son auction house in Wiltshire for a record-breaking $ 1.485 million, six times the guide price, matching the record paid for a Titanic artifact – the violin played by bandmaster Wallace Hartley.
Mr Astor, a hotelier who was worth £55 million – about £7 billion today – went down with the ship after helping his pregnant wife Madeleine into a lifeboat.
He was last seen smoking a cigarette on the starboard wing of the bridge while chatting to a fellow f