Gold pocket watch given to captain who rescued Titanic survivors sells for record price at nearly $2M

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Gold pocket watch given to captain who rescued Titanic survivors sells for record price at nearly $2M
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A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic sold at auction for nearly $2 million, setting a record for memorabilia from the shipwreck.

Astor’s pocket watch, which was on his body when it was recovered seven days after the ship sank, had previously set the record for the highest price paid for a Titanic keepsake, fetching nearly $1.5 million from the same auction house in April. “Every man, woman and child had a story to tell, and those stories are told over a century later through the memorabilia,” he said.

Rostron was awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal by President William Howard Taft and was later knighted by King George V.

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