Gold Pocket Watch That Belonged To The Titanic’s Richest Passenger Sells For $1.46 Million
The watch belonged to John Jacob Astor IV, the richest man aboard the RMS Titanic , who died when the ship sank into the North Atlantic during the early morning hours of April 15, 1912. When John Jacob Astor IV boarded the RMS Titanic on April 10, 1912, he was one of the richest men in the world. But when the ship went down just a few days later in the North Atlantic, he became one of the tragedy’s 1,500 victims. His body was found with a number of expensive objects, including a gold watch that has just sold for $1.46 million. According to the auction house that sold the watch, this shattered the pre-sale estimate. The Story Of John Jacob Astor’s Pocket Watch When Henry Aldridge & Sons put John Jacob Astor’s golden pocket watch up for auction, they expected it would sell for between £100,000 and £150,000. Instead, the watch went for several times that when it sold on April 27. The anonymous buyer purchased it for $1.46 million (£1.17 million). The watch thus became...