Second Titanic watch said to have gone down with Astor sells in a US saleroom
Two years after a Wiltshire auction house set a record for Titanic memorabilia with ‘the watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor’ at £900,000, another timekeeper making precisely the same claim has sold in Chicago for $800,000 (£592,000).
On April 22, Freeman’s offered a Patek Phillipe open face pocket watch and gold pencil that had co…