Like wedding rings and china sets, antique pocket watches often become precious family heirlooms passed down from parent to child for generations. They never lose their charm no matter how beaten and ...

A gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic sold at auction for nearly $2 million, setting a record for memorabilia from the shipwreck. The 18-carat ...

In April of 2024, an American pocket watch owned by John Jacob Astor IV—who died when the Titanic sank in April 1912—hammered for nearly $1.5 million, making it the most expensive piece of ephemera ...

Bust-down watches—the rap-world colloquialism for timepieces encrusted in aftermarket diamonds and gemstones—seem like an invention of recent history. In the early 2000s, especially, there was no ...