Titanic first-class menu, victim's pocket watch going on sale at auction

A rare menu from the Titanic's first-class restaurant is being sold at auction this week. The water-damaged menu shows what the ill-fated ocean liner's most well-to-do passengers ate for dinner on April 11, 1912, three days before the ship struck an iceberg that caused it to sink in the Atlantic Ocean within hours.

A pocket watch that was owned by a Russian immigrant who died in the catastrophe is also being sold at the same auction Saturday in the U.K., along with dozens of other Titanic and transportation memorabilia.

The watch was recovered from the body of passenger Sinai Kantor, 34, who was immigrating on the Titanic to the U.S. with his wife, who survived the disaster at sea, according to auction house Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. The Swiss-made watch's movement is heavily corroded from the salt water of the Atlantic, but the Hebrew figures on the stained face are still visible.