A gold pocket watch owned by Isidor Straus, a passenger on the Titanic, sold for a historic $2.3 million at an auction house in England on Nov. 22 Straus and his wife died on the sinking liner, a last ...

FILE - The gold watch of one of the Titanic’s most notable passengers has sold in Devizes for £1.78m ($2.3m). (Credit: Henry Aldridge and Son) A gold pocket watch belonging to a couple who died on the ...

Isidor and Ida Straus are remembered as two of the highest-profile victims of the Titanic disaster, and among the few first-class passengers to perish. The pair, who were depicted in James Cameron’s ...

“I will not be separated from my husband; as we have lived, so will we die together,” Ida Straus said before she and her husband died on the ill-fated ship A gold pocket watch owned by Isidor Straus, ...

Even as the Titanic slipped beneath the icy North Atlantic, one story of devotion survived the disaster — and now it has made history at auction. A gold pocket watch that once ticked on the wrist of ...

A gold pocket watch belonging to a couple who died on the Titanic, sold for a record $2.3 million at auction. The watch, gifted by his wife Ida and recovered from his body after the sinking. The ...