Pocket watch lost in the Titanic auctioned for over $50K

It's a tarnished old watch, corroded into silence by the same salty waters that swallowed the Titanic Sinai, who'd planned to become a doctor upon settling in The Bronx, drowned with the silver, Swiss-made watch in the pocket of his green suit Sinai's watch features Hebrew numbering on its dial, and on its back, an embossed design of Moses holding the Ten Commandments.

If he had pulled it from his pocket when the Titanic jolted against at an iceberg on April 15, some 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, it would have read 11:40 p.m He may have glanced at it while on deck, watching as Miriam was ushered "Women and children first" into Lifeboat 12 The Titanic would stay afloat only another two hours, until 2:20 am.

Along with his watch, Kantor also had a little telescope in his pocket, and in those two hours he may well have watched his bride's bobbing lifeboat as the Titanic slipped deeper and deeper into the water His pocket watch, which remained in family hands as Miriam relocated to Massachusetts While she remarried, it's been said that up until her death she paid to have a spray of fresh flowers placed on his grave every April 15th.

On Saturday, the watch was purchased through Heritage Auctions by John Miottel, a California museum owner who has three other timepieces from the Titanic disaster - including that of Col. . Source