Titanic watch owned by John Jacob Astor could fetch £150k at auction

A photograph of the Titanic, believed to have been taken the day before she left on her ill-fated voyage (Henry Aldridge and Son/PA)

A gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of the richest man on the Titanic could fetch £150,000 at auction.

Businessman John Jacob Astor, 47, went down with the ship in 1912 after seeing new wife Madeleine onto a lifeboat.