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Pocket Watch from Deadly Shipwreck Returns Home 165 Years Later: ‘Truly a Once-in-a-Lifetime Discovery’
After sinking to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1860 — along with the steamship Lady Elgin — Herbert Ingram’s pocket watch is ...
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Marie Antoinette’s Watch, Which She Never Saw, Is on Display
By Chris Hall Reporting from London It has been described as the most famous watch in the world. Some say it is the most valuable. And now, for the first time in decades, the pocket watch that ...
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Titanic pocket-watch which stopped when owner fell into sea is on display for first time
The pocket watch of Titanic passenger John Chapman, which stopped and froze forever at the exact time he plunged overboard, has gone on display for the first time. 20 February 2009 • 4:35pm ...
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A Florida auctioneer was about to sell an 1800s pocket watch. He learned it was a stolen piece of US presidential history
A pocket watch that belonged ... 26th president’s death in 1919, his watch was kept as a memento and eventually given to the park service to be put on display at the Sagamore Hill National ...