2025-04-19 18:00
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2025-04-19 18:00
The pocket watch of one of the Titanic passengers will be put up on April 26 for sale at Henry Aldridge and Son in Auction House in Devizes, Wiltshire in Great Britain, BBC said on Friday. It is estimated that its price can reach 50,000 pounds of sterling (approx. 58 thousand euros).
The women's pocket watch was found after the Titanic sinking next to the body of a 27-year-old Danish second-class Passenger Hans Christensen Givard, traveling to the USA with two friends who also died in this disaster.
The watch is sold by Givard's descendants. “This item is on the official list of Hans's personal belongings, prepared by the authorities a few weeks after the Titanic disaster, and has been in his family since then,” said the auctioner Andrew Aldridge.
“The watch mechanism was frozen when the cold waters of the North Atlantic consumed not only its owner, but also the most famous transatlanticist of all time, Titanica, April 15, 1912” – he added.
The watch, which shows traces of corrosion caused by salt water, was also the main attraction of the exhibition related to the Titanik, organized in Copenhagen in 2012 (PAP)
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