Titanic couple’s gold pocket watch could sell for £800,000 at auction

Items from the Titanic will be sold at auction, with a pocket watch expected to fetch £800,000 (Henry Aldridge and Son/PA) - (PA Media)

A gold pocket watch recovered from an elderly couple who drowned during the sinking of the Titanic is expected to fetch at least £800,000 when it is sold at auction.

First class passengers Isidor and Ida Straus were portrayed in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic movie as the couple cradling each other as the ship sinks in April 1912, costing 1,500 lives.