L’orologio da tasca d’oro dell’uomo più ricco del Titanic è stato aggiudicato alla cifra record di 1,2 milioni di sterline

>A gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of the richest man on the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking £1.2m.

>The watch was sold on Saturday to a private collector in the US at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, for the highest amount ever for Titanic memorabilia, the auctioneers said.

>The original owner of the watch, businessman John Jacob Astor, went down with the ship in 1912 at the age of 47, after seeing his new wife, Madeleine, on to a lifeboat.

>The previous highest amount paid for Titanic artefacts was £1.1m for a violin that was played as the ship sank – which sold at the same auction house in 2013, according to the auctioneers.

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