1 hour ago Titanic gold pocket watch recovered from elderly couple who drowned in disaster sells for record £1.78million at auction

Auctioneers confirmed it eclipsed the previous £1.56million record set last year for a gold watch presented to the captain of the ship that rescued more than 700 survivors.

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4 h. ago Titanic couple’s gold pocket watch sells for record £1.78m at auction

It was the highest amount ever paid for Titanic memorabilia, the auctioneers said.

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61 h. ago Stacey Solomon's new Abbott Lyon watch that'll give you a £7k designer

Stacey Solomon has launched her latest jewellery collection with Abbott Lyon, and it's packed full of personalisable, meaningful and beautiful pieces - including a new version of her best-selling watch

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64 h. ago Watch the moment a Gustav Klimt painting sells for record amount at auction

A Gustav Klimt painting has become the most expensive piece of modern art ever after it was sold at auction.

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9 d. ago Titanic couple’s gold pocket watch could sell for £800,000 at auction

First class passengers Isidor and Ida Straus were portrayed in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic movie

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1 week ago Titanic gold pocket watch recovered from body of one of its richest passengers is set to fetch £1m

Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were immortalised in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster movie as the elderly couple holding each other on their bed as the Titanic sank.

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1 week ago Stacey Solomon's new £170 personalised watch is an affordable Rolex alternative

Stacey Solomon has launched her latest jewellery collection with Abbott Lyon, and it's packed full of personalisable pieces - including a new version of her best-selling watch

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1 week ago Stacey Solomon’s jewellery range has a new version of her best selling £170 Rolex

Stacey Solomon has just launched her latest jewellery collection at Abbott Lyon, and it includes an updated version of her best-selling watch that looks just like a £10k Rolex

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2 w. ago Man who stabbed Rolex watch seller in West London caught by facial recognition technology

Man who stabbed Rolex watch seller in West London caught by facial recognition technology  MyLondon

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3 w. ago Strapped for cash: why Francis Ford Coppola is flogging his watches

Megalopolis’s grand self-funded folly has left the director at least $85m out of pocket, so he needs a helping handThe bad news for Francis Ford Coppola is that he made Megalopolis at exactly the wrong time. A long, pretentious, semi-coherent arthouse film about progress through architecture, starring Jon Voight’s erection and a man who can stop time for no apparent reason, was probably always going to struggle to make money.But to make it for over $100m of his own money and release it in 2024, in an age where the bulk of the public have largely given up on visiting the cinema, was disastrous. Its box office gross, in the end, was just $14.4m. For comparison, that puts it roughly in line with the gross of a French language biopic about Charles Aznavour released the same year. But that film cost four times less, didn’t open in any English-speaking countries and wasn’t about the proposed construction of a glowing golden city. Continue reading...

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