A watch given to a ship captain who rescued survivors from the Titanic sold at auction for nearly $2 million, a record for memorabilia from the shipwreck.

Rostron saved over 700 people after the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic on its maiden voyage in 1912. The watch, given to Rostron by the widow of John Jacob Astor, the richest man to die in the disaster, set a record for memorabilia from the shipwreck.

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