This Pocket Watch From the Titanic Just Sold for a Record-Breaking $2.3 Million

In April of 2024, an American pocket watch owned by John Jacob Astor IV—who died when the Titanic sank in April 1912—hammered for nearly $1.5 million, making it the most expensive piece of ephemera from the ill-fated vessel ever sold at auction. Then, last September, that record was in turn beaten when a gold Tiffany & Co. pocket watch given to the captain of the Carpathia, which rescued many of the survivors, sold for nearly $2 million. The buyer was none other than Tiffany & Co.

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