This pocket watch with an engraved goldplated case was found on the body of John Starr March an American sea post clerk assigned to the RMS Titanic The watchs hands point to probably having stopped on the morning of April as the ocean liner sank in the North Atlantic Eyewitnesses stated that the postal clerks worked to rescue the mail as the ship was going down None of the five postal clerks aboard survived the disaster Marchs body was recovered and his effects including this watch were returned to his two daughters
