Isidor and Ida Straus are remembered as two of the highest-profile victims of the Titanic disaster, and among the few first-class passengers to perish.

The pair, who were depicted in James Cameron’s Oscar-winning 1997 movie “Titanic,” were offered seats in one of the lifeboats but refused to be separated.

The body of Isidor, who co-owned the New York department store Macy’s, was later recovered. His wife’s was never found. Now, well over a century after the world’s most famous maritime disaster, the gold pocket watch Isidor was wearing at the time has sold at auction for a record amount.

Isidor and Ida Straus were travelling home from their native Germany to the US when the luxury ocean liner hit an iceberg and sank. Phil Yeomans/Shutterstock

At a sale in England on Saturday, the

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