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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Michael Toledo

Titanic Watch Fetches £1.78m as Auction Revives Debate on Preserving the Historic Wreck

Old pocket watch (Credit: Fredrick Eankels/Pexels)

A gold pocket watch recovered from Titanic victim Isidor Straus has smashed all records after selling for £1.78 million ($2.33 million), the highest price ever paid for a Titanic artefact.

The extraordinary sale has reignited worldwide fascination with the 1912 disaster and raised urgent new questions about how long the rapidly decaying shipwreck will survive on the ocean floor.

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