Gold Pocket Watch Recovered From the Titanic Sets New Auction Record at $2.3 M.

A gold pocket watch recovered from the ship-wrecked Titanic fetched a record £1.78 million ($2.33 million) at auction this weekend.The 18-carat Jules Jurgensen gold watch belonged to Isidor Straus, who perished on board the Titanic with his wife Ida, when the ship hit an iceberg and sank in 1912. Straus received the engraved watch as a gift on his 43rd birthday in 1888. The object remains frozen in time having stopped at 02:20, when it was submerged in the ocean water.Straus’s body w