Titanic enthusiasts have expressed concern after the pocket watch of the richest man on the ship - recovered when his body was fished out of the Atlantic seven days after the tragedy - was sold for a record-breaking £1.175 million this month. The timepiece belonged to John Jacob Astor IV, a hotelier who was worth £55 million – about £7 billion today – who was among more than 1,500 people who died when the ship struck an iceberg in the early hours of April 15, 19772. His 14-carat at Henry Aldridge & Son auction house in Wiltshire for a record-breaking £1.175 million, six times the guide price, matching the record paid for a Titanic artifact – the violin played by bandmaster Wallace Hartley.
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