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 ...
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 ...
HenryAldridgeSon/Bournemouth News/Shutterstock The 18-carat Jules Jurgensen watch; Isidor Straus with his wife, Ida. A pocket watch owned by a first-class passenger ...
“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, ...