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☆ A crypto bigwig dropped $1.5M on a watch from the Titanic as a gift for his wife
  + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
FTX's former head of Europe bought the most expensive Titanic relic ever auctioned. The gold watch sold for $1.5 million, and belonged to John Jacob Astor IV. Gruhn is a German crypto law veteran who formerly served as the head of FTX Europe. Gruhn is now readying the launch of a new crypto trading venue called Perpetuals, and said he plans to restart FTX Europe under a different name. "From all the facts it was clear that FTX Europe did not and couldn't know about the fraud from SBF," he said.
Persons: John Jacob Astor IV, Gruhn, —, Patrick Gruhn, Henry Aldridge, Astor, Andrew Aldridge, wasn't, Sam Bankman, Fried Organizations: Service, Titanic, titans, Henry Aldridge & Son Locations: Europe, German, America, United States, Gruhn
☆ Gold pocket watch owned by the richest man on the Titanic, who died when the ship sank, fetches record $1.5 million
  + stars: | 2024-04-28 | by ( Cameron Manley | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A gold pocket watch owned by Titanic's richest passenger sold at auction for around $1.5 million. The watch was owned by John Jacob Astor IV, a businessman who died when the ship sank in 1912. AdvertisementA gold pocket watch that belonged to the richest man on the Titanic has sold at auction for a record-breaking £1.175 million, which is roughly $1.5 million. Astor IV, who was 47 at the time the Titanic sank, helped his wife, Madeleine, onto a lifeboat and then smoked a last cigarette as the ship went down. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesThe RMS Titanic sank in the early hours of April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Persons: John Jacob Astor IV, —, Henry Aldridge, Son's Instagram, Astor, Son, Astor IV, Madeleine, Wallace Hartley, Harland &, OceanGate Organizations: Titanic's, Service, Henry Aldridge & Son, Titanic, Getty, Harland, Harland & Wolff Locations: Devizes , Wiltshire, South West England, Belfast , Northern Ireland
☆ John Jacob Astor’s gold watch worn on Titanic to be sold at auction
  + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Emily Blumenthal | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Astor was one of around 1,500 people who died when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg. The violin itself was sold for $1.7 million via the same auction house in 2013 and is the highest-selling item from the ship ever. The valise belonging to Titanic bandmember and orchestra leader Wallace Hartley, which held the violin he played as the Titanic sank, is also for sale. The watch was among the personal effects found with Astor’s body after the Titanic sank, according to the auction house. In 1935, Vincent gave the watch as a christening gift to the infant son of William Dobbyn IV, John Jacob Astor’s executive secretary, according to the auction house.
Persons: John Jacob Astor IV, Astor, Madeleine, Henry Aldridge, bandmember, Wallace Hartley, Andrew Aldridge, Aldridge, Vincent Astor, Vincent, William Dobbyn IV, John Jacob Astor’s, ” Aldridge, John Jacob Astor IV’s cufflinks Organizations: CNN, Titanic, Henry Aldridge & Son, Son Locations: Wiltshire, England, United States
☆ John Jacob Astor IV was one of the richest men in the world when he died on the Titanic. Here's a look at his life.
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Frank Olito | Erin Mcdowell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
John Jacob Astor IV was born on July 13, 1864, in New York into one of the most affluent families in the world. The first John Jacob Astor. Stock Montage/ GettyThe Astor family dates back to the early 1700s when the original John Jacob Astor (pictured) came to the Americas from a small village in Germany to make a name for himself. Quickly, Astor bought land all around Manhattan, becoming one of the richest men in the world and creating a dynasty. When John Jacob Astor IV was born to William Astor and Caroline Webster Schermerhorn in 1864, the Astor name was already well-respected in high society, and the family's fortune was one of the world's largest.
Persons: John Jacob Astor IV, John Jacob Astor, Astor, William Astor, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Locations: New York, Americas, Germany, Manhattan
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