The vintage timepiece belonged to a postal clerk aboard the doomed British passenger liner.
Some 110 years on, the relic sold for $116,000 at a Henry Aldrige & Sons auction over the weekend in the small market town of Devizes, England. The watch’s screen is shattered and both the minute and second hands are missing. There is, however, a faint imprint of a hand visible between four and five numerals, which coincides with reports that the ship sunk at 2:21 am. Woody and his fellow mail clerks reportedly died trying to save sacks of letters from the flooded storage room to no avail.
Henry Aldrige & Sons has developed a reputation for collecting, authenticating and auctioning vintage finds from the. In 2017, the family-owned auction house sold a fur coat owned by a first-class stewardess for $178,000 and a letter by passenger Oscar Holverson for nearly $150,000. It’s further proof that
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