£1,310,000
R.M.S. TITANIC:
R.M.S. TITANIC: An extremely important 18ct. gold pocket watch, the case stamped no. 40198 and the Swiss level movement no. 71072 made for Tiffany & Co New York by Touchon & Co of Switzerland. This watch can be regarded as the sister piece to J. J. Astor's pocket watch which was sold by Henry Aldridge & Son in April of this year. The reverse bears enamelled monogram AHR (Arthur Henry Rostron). The inside of the case inscribed "Presented to Captain Rostron with the heartfelt gratitude and appreciation of three survivors of the Titanic April 15th 1912 Mrs John B. Thayer, Mrs John Jacob Astor and Mrs George D. Widener."
The luxury 18ct gold Tiffany & Co timepiece bears testament to the regard that Captain Rostron was held in by the widows of three of the most high-profile businessmen lost in the sinking, John Jacob Astor, George Dunton Widener and John B. Thayer. Captain Rostron’s quick reaction and bravery resulted in him and his crew rescuing over 700 surviving passengers and crew of R.M.S. Titanic after the tragic sinking of the ship on her maiden voyage. Madeleine Talmage Astor, Marian Longstreth Thayer and Eleanor Elkins Widener, whose husbands were considered three of the wealthiest businessmen in the world at the time, presented the pocket watch to Rostron ‘with heartfelt gratitude and appreciation’ during a lunch on May 31st at the Astor mansion at 840 Fifth Avenue in New York on May 31st 1912, exactly one year after Titanic’s launch and was later featured in the New York Times on June 2nd 1912.
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