Pocket watch from the richest Titanic passenger boosts saleroom to best ever auction result
A gold pocket watch that was found on the body of American business magnate John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912) following the Titanic disaster was hammered down at £900,000 in a sale at Henry Aldridge & Son.
Astor helped his wife Madeleine into a lifeboat but he perished as the ship slid beneath the waves o…