78 million, according to multiple reports. 56 million. A gold pocket watch owned by engineer John Richardson of the RMS Carpathia could fetch up to £100,000 at auction, according to major media reports.
Richardson was instrumental in the Carpathia rescuing more than 700 survivors from the Titanic. His watch is an 18-carat timepiece awarded by the Carpathia Engineers' Presentation Fund months after the rescue. The watch stayed in Richardson's family for almost a century before being first offered for sale in 2003.
Justin Matthews, director of Hansons Auctioneers, said the crew turned the ship from a transatlantic passenger vessel into a high-speed rescue craft under emergency conditions. A gold watch rumoured to have been used as a bribe for a Titanic lifeboat spot is expected to fetch up to £50,000 at auction, according to auctioneers John Nicholson's. The watch was handed to a crew member by a passenger during the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
It is set for sale with auctioneers John Nicholson's, expected to fetch between £30,000 and £50,000. The Caldwell family, who survived the Titanic sinking, were left off the published list of survivors. Albert Caldwell changed his account of his family's rescue several times throughout his life.
A watch recovered from the body of wealthy businessman Frederick Sutton, a Titanic victim, is expected to fetch up to £80,000 at auction, according to major media reports. Sutton was a 61-year-old first-class passenger who drowned in the sinking. His watch is an 18-carat gold pocket watch with a heavily dented case and missing hour and minute hands, but the second hand is present and frozen in time.
The watch will be auctioned by Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, on 18 April, estimated at £50,000 to £80,000. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said the significance of the watch is that it was onboard the Titanic and the seconds hand is frozen at the moment its owner went into the cold North Atlantic water 114 years ago.