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BBC News
10-07-2025
- BBC News
Shackleton expedition pocket watch sells at Cotswold auction
A silver pocket watch, which travelled on explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic voyage more than a century ago, has sold for £2,000 more than its guide price at George V Antarctic Expedition open face pocket watch was taken on the SY Aurora during Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition between 1914 and May 1915, a blizzard caused the ship to break from its anchorage, and it spent 312 days adrift due to ice. It was freed by melting ice in March watch went under the hammer at Kinghams Auctioneers in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, on Thursday and was sold to a private buyer for £2,600.
BBC News
04-07-2025
- BBC News
Watch with 'adventurous past' to be auctioned in Gloucestershire
A pocket watch which has been described as having an "adventurous past" by an auction house is set to go under the engraving on its dustcover details how the watch was taken on the SY Aurora by Sir Ernest Shackleton during his Trans-Antarctic Expedition between 1914 and open face silver pocket watch was inherited 40 years ago by the current watch is expected to fetch between £400 and £600 at Kinghams Auctioneers in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, on 10 July. The engraving on the back cover reads: "This watch went to Antarctica in 1914. and was carried away on the S.Y. Aurora on her long drift returning when she relieved (sic) the party in 1917."The S.Y. Aurora transported and supplied the Ross Sea Party, a component of Sir Ernest's expedition, led by Joseph Stenhouse. In May 1915, a blizzard caused the ship to break from its anchorage and, with ice hindering its ability to manoeuvre, it spent 312 days was freed by melting ice in March said competitive bidding is expected on the watch because there is "a strong interest in anything expedition and particularly Antarctic-related amongst collectors".
Forbes
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
The Aaron Jah Stone Pocket Watch Is Couture's Most Coveted Timepiece
The gem-set pocket watch by Aarn Jah Stone designer Cyril Bismuth, on show at the Couture Show in ... More Las Vegas this week. It's Las Vegas Jewelry Week and at the Couture Show, Aaron Jah Stone is showing for the first time. Behind the brand, is the Parisian jewelry designer and passionate stone hunter Cyril Bismuth, whose 'spiritual jewelry' already has a firm following in the US market. With him in Vegas, is a very special jewel designed to mark a milestone — and it's up for the Best in Innovative Award. Bismuth decided to create a 15th anniversary pocket watch on the way back from a trip to Dallas, as he tells me, when we meet in a Paris restaurant. 'I love the ways Texans can combine the classic jeans-cowboy boots-Stetson look with French designer luxury.' Until a few years ago, he admits he 'didn't know much about the State beyond JR Ewing in Dallas,' but he has since made many friends in this most welcoming of States. In gem-set silver, the Aaron Jah Stone pocketwatch feels pleasingly heavy. Set into rugged, textured silver, a rainbow mix of faceted and polished sapphires, tourmalines and turquoises mark the hours in the 36mm watch case. The piece is attached to a string of his signature hard stone beads, with custom clips so it can be worn as a necklace or pocket watch inspired by the old-style elegance of modern Texan style. The piece feels heavy in the hand, and significant; a fitting celebration of his first 15 years in business. With a carefully designed interior, it closes with a safe and satisfying snap. Bismuth's eyes light up when he's talking about gemstones, whether it's buying turquoise at a mine in Arizona, or sifting through watermelon tourmalines and Zambian sapphires in Bangkok. He describes what it was like to buy a gemstone in the backstreets of Rangoon; a pale blue, slightly starred sapphire cabochon. It would be the first time he had bought a sapphire back from Mayanmar: 'it was the stone of my whole trip,' he says, and he went on to set the sapphire in the first ever silver ring he made, at the Haute Ecole de Joaillerie jewelry school in Paris. Aaron Jah Stone's pocket watch is designed for a 36mm watch. 'I've collected stones ever since I was a kid,' he says. 'Even worthless rocks have always been fascinating to me'. After completing his training, he began making hard stone bracelets, and elaborate strings of precious beads strung on his signature red thread, before moving onto small collections, like the Phoenix collection, in which opal eyes wink out from beds of diamond pave as they climb ears and encircle fingers. It's jewelry made with intention, each stone chosen for its properties, and it soon caught celebrity eyes. Aaron Jah Stone came to prominence in Paris in the early 2010s and achieved international visibility when Bismuth's friend Sebastien Jondeau showed Karl Lagerfeld his jewelry. Lagerfeld wore one of his necklaces in Singapore at the Chanel resort show in 2013 and Bismuth ended up creating a new necklace for the Chanel Creative Director at each Fashion Week thereafter. Before long, Bismuth was front-row at the Chanel runway and his designs were seen on members of Lagerfeld's inner circle, including models Lily Rose Depp and Cara Delevingne. A watermelon tourmaline and gold necklace by Aaron Jah Stone Since then, he has created jewelry for celebrities from Michael Jordan to Pharrell, and appeared in glossy magazines and newspapers worldwide. But he became disillusioned with the media after a time and took a step back from the limelight to build up a solid global collector base. He first met the Couture founder Gannon Brousseau a decade ago, but at the time the Paris luxury store Montaigne Market gave him all the international visibility he needed. Fast forward ten years, and the time is finally right to take Aaron Jah Stone to the Desert City. It's a strong edition for French independent designer brands at Couture, some of whom have previously been more tentative participants, citing travel and booth cost as barriers and preferring to show on home ground during Paris Fashion Weeks. In recent years, French-owned brands have become more prominent. After winning the award for Best in Debuting in 2022, Marie Lichtenberg is now a regular, as well as Yvonne Leon, Rainbow K and Maison Alix Dumas, showcasing the breadth of creativity from French designers to a cohort of premium international buyers and press. Cyril Bismuth, the jewelry designer behind Aaron Jah Stone Although Bismuth retains a loyal French clientele, his US collectorship developed rapidly. 'I understood early on that my collectors already had all the classics from the big houses,' he explains. 'They wanted unique, meaningful jewels that they could stack, or one-off masterpieces to wear as a statement. Americans are lot more sensitive to spiritual jewelry than the French, and I love that!', he laughs. 'They choose bigger colored stones and understand the rarity of the piece, because I produce mainly bespoke and very small series. There's an element of rejection of the luxury 'uniform'.' 'When you buy one of my pieces, you're buying an energy, a story. It's everything from day one of my stone-sourcing research, my trips, all the different stages in the making process in my Parisian workshops, right up to my Instagram post celebrating the final piece,' Bismuth says. And Aaron Jah Stone has a busy summer to come, with a stop-off at that Arizona turquoise mine after Couture, before heading back to Europe for private sales with his international clientele in villas and on yachts in the Mediterranean. September will see him back Stateside for a string of trunk shows in New York, Dallas, Aspen and Miami. I get the sense that whether he's sifting rough turquoise or meeting new clients, busy is exactly how Bismuth likes it.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Pocket Watch from Deadly Shipwreck Returns Home 165 Years Later: ‘Truly a Once-in-a-Lifetime Discovery'
A pocket watch belonging to the late British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram is now on display at the Boston Guildhall museum in the U.K. — 165 years after it was lost The watch sank in Lake Michigan with the Lady Elgin in 1860 'This find is truly a once-in-a-lifetime discovery,' Boston Guildhall museum's Luke Skerritt said in a statementAfter sinking to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1860 — along with the steamship Lady Elgin — Herbert Ingram's pocket watch is back home. The historic timepiece returned to Boston, Lincolnshire, in the U.K. this month, 165 years after it was lost when the Lady Elgin sank during a brutal storm after it collided with a schooner in the dark of night. The watch belonged to Ingram, a British journalist and politician who died with his son when the ship sank. It was found in the lake in 1992, but was just recently sent back to the Boston Guildhall museum, near where the Ingrams had lived, according to local online outlet LincolnshireWorld. The long-lost item is described as a 16-carat gold pocket watch that experts say stayed in relatively good condition due to the cold, low-oxygen environment of the lake preventing any major corrosion. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Thirty-two years after divers discovered the watch, they asked archaeologist Valerie van Heest in 2024 to find a way to display it in an exhibition. 'I very quickly came to the realization it doesn't belong in America,' van Heest, who purchased the watch and then donated it to the Boston Guildhall museum, told the BBC. 'It belongs in Boston where Herbert Ingram was from, where a statue of him still stands.' 'To see a watch which belonged to the man who stands in Boston's town square,' van Heest continued to the BBC, 'I think this is going to draw people in, to wonder, 'Who was this man?' ' Van Heest, who is the author of Lost on the Lady Elgin, also described the historical importance of the long-lost pocket watch's return home. 'So many people lost their lives within minutes of hitting the water,' van Heest told Fox 17, noting that the Boston Guildhall museum was planning a Lady Elgin exhibit when she got her hands on the pocket watch. 'They didn't have any physical artifacts, and here I was offering not only an artifact but Herbert Ingram's personal watch.' 'It was a serendipitous occurrence,' she emphasized. Luke Skerritt, Boston Guildhall's arts and heritage manager, said in statement about van Heest's offering that 'this find is truly a once-in-a-lifetime discovery — the sort of thing you read about in textbooks and not something you expect to read in an email on a mid-week working day.' Read the original article on People
BBC News
23-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Watch lost in US shipwreck comes home to UK after 165 years
A 165-year-old pocket watch found in an American shipwreck has been returned to its home town in the timepiece belonged to Herbert Ingram – a British politician and journalist from Boston, was recognised for his role in bringing fresh water, gas and the railways to the town, but died during a trip to the US in 1860 when the steamship Lady Elgin sank on Lake Sarah Sharpe, from Boston Borough Council, said: "The fact that this small part of him is coming back to his home town to be displayed is really special and important." The pocket watch, its chain and fob was found by divers at the bottom of the lake, in Wisconsin, in September it remained in the US for more than 30 years until it was offered to an archaeologist who was curating an exhibition about the wreck of the Lady was sailing on the ship with his son when a violent storm broke out on the night of 8 September 1860. The ship collided with another vessel and Ingram was among about 300 people who body was brought back to Britain, where his legacy has lived on. He was celebrated as the founder of The Illustrated London News, the first illustrated news magazine, and was credited, as MP for Boston, with helping to transform the town into a large industrial centre. A statue of him stands outside St Botolph's Church – the Boston Stump – overlooking the marketplace. After the watch was discovered by divers in 1992, its owner was identified as Ingram using initials and manufacturer October 2024, the divers approached Valerie van Heest, an archaeologist who had conducted a survey of the said the watch had belonged to Ingram and offered it to her for an exhibition about the Lady Elgin."I very quickly came to the realisation it doesn't belong in America," she said."It belongs in Boston where Herbert Ingram was from, where a statue of him still stands."Ms van Heest contacted the Boston Guildhall museum and later purchased the watch in order to donate it to the town."It is physical artefacts that connect us in the present to the past," she said."To see a watch which belonged to the man who stands in Boston's town square… I think this is going to draw people in, to wonder who was this man?" Coincidentally, the Guildhall had been planning an exhibition about Sarah Sharpe, the portfolio holder for heritage and culture at Boston council, said she was so surprised when Ms van Heest got in touch that she "couldn't sit down"."Since then I've been absolutely buzzing," she added. "Herbert Ingram was one of our most influential people."Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
