Famous Titanic passenger’s pocket watch that stopped at moment doomed ship sank sells for record at auction

A gold pocket watch owned by one of the the majority famous passengers to die on the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking million at auction Isidor Straus who was the co-owner of Macy s brought the watch with him on the ill-fated voyage he was taking with his wife home to New York after a trip to Europe Pocket watches are incredibly personal items Andrew Aldridge managing director of Henry Aldridge and Son where the watch sold last Saturday disclosed in a announcement Every man woman and child client or crew had a story to tell and they are narrated years later through the objects that they owned Aldridge added Items like this keep the story alive and bring us closer to the memory of one of the biggest tragedies of the th century TITANIC PASSENGER'S RARE GOLD POCKET WATCH COULD BECOME PRICIEST ARTIFACT EVER SOLDThe -carat gold Jules J rgensen pocket watch was an birthday gift to Straus from his wife Ida who famously refused to get into a lifeboat and instead died on the boat with her husband My place is with you she reportedly stated him I have lived with you I love you and if necessary I shall die with you Instead her maid was shuffled into a lifeboat and given Ida s fur coat to keep warm The pocket watch supposedly stopped ticking at a m April when the ship became submerged REMEMBERING THE TITANIC OVER A CENTURY LATER WHAT CAUSED THE LUXURY SHIP TO SINK HOW COUNTLESS LIVES WERE LOST Their love was depicted in James Cameron s Oscar-winning epic Titanic showing the couple holding hands in their stateroom bed as the ship went down The watch was recovered from his body and returned to his family until this month s auction The pocket watch broke the record for the sale of Titanic memorabilia a year after another pocket watch which was given to the captain of RMS Carpathia by John Jacob Astor s widow and two other survivors as thanks for their rescue sold at the same auction house for million Selected of the prices seen at this sale indicate the continued fascination with this amazing story Aldridge explained