Famous Titanic passenger’s pocket watch that stopped at moment doomed ship sank sells for record at auction

A golden pouch ticker owned by 1 of the astir celebrated passengers to dice connected the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking $2.3 cardinal astatine auction.

Isidor Straus, who was the co-owner of Macy’s, brought the ticker with him connected the ill-fated voyage helium was taking with his woman location to New York pursuing a travel to Europe.

"Pocket watches are incredibly idiosyncratic items," Andrew Aldridge, managing manager of Henry Aldridge and Son, wherever the ticker sold past Saturday, said successful a statement."

"Every man, pistillate and kid rider oregon unit had a communicative to archer and they are told 113 years aboriginal done the objects that they owned," Aldridge added. "Items similar this support the communicative live and bring america person to the representation of 1 of the biggest tragedies of the 20th century."

TITANIC PASSENGER'S RARE GOLD POCKET WATCH COULD BECOME PRICIEST ARTIFACT EVER SOLD

Titanic rider Isidor Straus and his golden pouch ticker that sold astatine auction. (Bettmann via Getty Images, Henry Aldridge & Son/BPNS)

The 18-carat golden Jules Jurgensen pouch ticker was an 1888 day acquisition to Straus from his wife, Ida, who famously refused to get into a lifeboat and alternatively died connected the vessel with her husband.

"My spot is with you," she reportedly told him. "I person lived with you. I emotion you, and, if necessary, I shall dice with you."

Instead, her maid was shuffled into a lifeboat and fixed Ida’s fur overgarment to support warm.

The pouch ticker supposedly stopped ticking astatine 2:20 a.m. April 15, 1912, erstwhile the vessel became submerged.

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Titanic passengers Isidor and Ida Straus (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Their emotion was depicted successful James Cameron’s Oscar-winning epic "Titanic," showing the mates holding hands successful their stateroom furniture arsenic the vessel went down.

The ticker was recovered from his assemblage and returned to his household until this month’s auction.

1912: The ill-fated White Star liner RMS Titanic, which struck an iceberg and sank connected her maiden voyage crossed the Atlantic.  (Hulton Archive)

The pouch ticker broke the grounds for the merchantability of Titanic memorabilia, a twelvemonth aft different pouch ticker — that was fixed to the skipper of RMS Carpathia by John Jacob Astor’s widow and 2 different survivors arsenic acknowledgment for their rescue — sold astatine the aforesaid auction location for $1.97 million.

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"Some of the prices seen astatine this merchantability bespeak the continued fascination with this astonishing story," Aldridge said.