Pocket watch of Titanic victim Ramon Artagaveytia Gomez

One of the finest RMS Titanic onboard watches ever to be made available for sale at auction. It belonged to First Class Uruguayan Titanic victim Ramon Artagaveytia Gomez and was recovered from his person. Artagaveytia boarded the Titanic in Cherbourg, having been in Europe visiting his nephew who was the Uruguayan Consul General in Berlin. He was travelling to the United States on Titanic for a visit before returning to his home in Argentina. He had previously survived the fire and sinking of the ship America by jumping off the deck. He wrote that with the advent of wireless, a ship in distress would be able to instantly communicate with the whole world. On the night of the sinking, Artagaveytia was seen on deck quite alarmed over the events which were unfolding. Witnesses purportedly reported seeing him jumping off the deck holding a deck chair. Artagaveytia did not survive, his body recovered by the Cable Ship MacKay-Bennett about a week after the disaster. The watch is a Zenith Swiss pocket watch with a white dial and Arabic numerals. The watch remains In the same condition as when it was removed from the North Atlantic, the hands frozen in time

Frozen Gomez Preservation Ramon Timepiece Uruguayan Zenith

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