Image: Titanic passenger Isidor Straus and his gold pocket watch that sold at auction. (Bettmann via Getty Images; Henry Aldridge & Son/BPNS)
Isidor Straus co-owned Macy’s and died with wife Ida who refused a lifeboat to stay with her husband
By Brie Stimson
A gold pocket watch owned by one of the most famous passengers to die on the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking $2.3 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, said in a statement.
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