A gold pocket watch that belonged to an elderly couple who drowned as the Titanic sunk has sold for a record-breaking £1.78m at auction.
The 18-carat Jules Jurgensen engraved watch was owned by first class passenger Isidor Straus, who died when the ship sank in April 1912.
He and his wife Ida were portrayed in the film Titanic as a couple who held each other as the ship went down.
When he was offered a seat on a lifeboat due to his age, he replied that he would not go before other men.
His wife refused to leave him, and the couple were last seen alive sitting on deckchairs, facing fate by each other's side.
They were among very few first class passengers to perish in the disaster.
The watch was recovered from Mr Straus's body along with other personal items and returned to his family.
It had been a present for his 43rd birthday in 1888 - the same year he became a partner in the New York department store, Macy's.
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The watch, which had remained in the couple's family, was sold at Henry Aldridge & Son Auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire.
The £1.78m for the item is the highest amount ever paid for Titanic memorabilia, according to the company.
A letter written by Mrs Straus on Titanic stationery and posted while onboard the ship fetched £100,000.
The previous record was set last year when another gold pocket watch presented to the captain of a boat that rescued over 700 passengers from the liner sold for £1.56m.
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