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    Titanic resurfaces as luxury watch

    BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Steel and coal from the Titanic have been transformed into a new line of luxury wristwatches that claim to capture the essence of the legendary ocean liner which sank in 1912.
    Geneva watchmaker Romain Jerome SA billed its "Titanic-DNA" collection as among the most exclusive pieces showcased this week at Baselworld, the watch and jewellery industry's largest annual trade fair.
    "It is very luxurious and very inaccessible," said Yvan Arpa, chief executive of the three-year-old company that hopes the limited edition watches will attract both collectors and garrulous luxury goods buyers.
    "So many rich people buy incredibly complicated watches without understanding how they work, because they want a story to tell," Arpa said. "To them we offer a story."
    The North Atlantic wreck site of the Titanic, which hit an iceberg and sank on its first voyage from the English port of Southampton to New York, have been protected for more than a decade but many relics were taken in early diving expeditions.
    Romain Jerome said it purchased a piece of the hull weighing about 1.5 kg (3 pounds) that was retrieved in 1991, but declined to identify the seller. The metal has been certified as authentic by the Titanic's builders Harland and Wolff.
    To make the watches, which were offered for sale for the first time in Basel for between $7,800 and $173,100, the Swiss company created an alloy using the slab from the Titanic with steel being used in a Harland and Wolff replica of the vessel.
    The gold, platinum and steel time pieces have black dial faces made of lacquer paint that includes coal recovered from the debris field of the Titanic wreck site, offered for sale by the U.S. company RMS Titanic Inc.
    Arpa said the combination of new and old materials infused the watches with a sense of renewal, instead of representing a reminder of the 1,500 passengers who drowned when the ocean liner met her tragic end off the coast of Newfoundland.
    "It is a message of hope, of life stronger than death, of rebirth," he said in an interview in Romain Jerome's exposition booth in Basel, where more than 2,100 exhibitors are flaunting their latest wares amid a boom for the luxury goods sector.
    The company will make 2,012 watches to coincide with the centenary anniversary of the Titanic's sinking in 2012. Arpa said the young watchmaker would unveil a new series next year commemorating another famous legend, but declined to offer clues of what is to come.
    "For a new brand, you have to find something different to be interesting," he said. Asked if the next collection would be based on Scotland's legendary Loch Ness monster, he smiled and said: "Ooh. Have you found it?"
    bron: http://www.cnn.com

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    Titanic passenger lists go online

    Titanic passenger lists go online

    The original passenger lists from the Titanic are being made available online for the first time, 95 years after the ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage.
    The lists could previously be seen only at the National Archives in Kew, south-west London.
    They will be free to view on the findmypast.com website for a week - after which a fee will be charged.
    The anniversary of the disaster, which claimed 1,523 lives, will be marked on Sunday with a service in Southampton.
    The ship set sail from the Hampshire city on 10 April 1912, and 549 of the victims hailed from there.
    The outdoor public service will be held at the Titanic Engineer's Memorial in Above Bar Street in the city centre at 1100 BST.
    Larger project

    Searching through the lists of passengers who sailed on the Titanic has been awkward in the past, as they have been kept in 34 separate boxes at the Kew museum.
    It is hoped that the move to put them online will help people who are trying to trace relatives who moved abroad.
    The Titanic lists are part of a larger project - with 1.5m ship passenger lists dating back to 1890 being put online.
    Elaine Collins, from the Findmypast website, said the lists provided a fascinating insight.
    "What you're going to find is the details about the voyage - the individuals, what class they were travelling, where they were planning to land, their country of intended future permanent residence," she said.
    bron: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6554755.stm

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    • #3
      Titanic-horloges op komst

      Titanic-horloges op komst

      gekocht, en gaat binnenkort horloges uitbrengen die vervaardigd zijn met metaal van het gezonken schip.
      Het bedrijf dat de Titanic bouwde heeft inmiddels de echtheid van het stuk metaal bevestigd. Het restant van de Titanic heeft tien jaar geleden een beschermde status gekregen. Het bedrijf stelt echter dat het materiaal al in 1991 zou zijn opgevist.
      De horloges gaan tussen de 7800 en 17300 dollar kosten, afhankelijk van de hoeveelheid Titanic. Er worden 2012 exemplaren vervaardigd, in verband met de honderdjarige herdenking van de ramp die in 2012 zal plaatsvinden.
      bron: http://www.nieuwnieuws.nl/archives/2007 ... komst.html
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      • #4
        Event remembers Titanic disaster

        Event remembers Titanic disaster

        A service has been held in Southampton to remember those who died when the RMS Titanic sank 95 years ago.
        The ceremony at the Titanic Engineers' Memorial in Above Bar Street was held to honour the 549 residents of the city who died on the luxury liner.
        Titanic had sailed from Southampton on 10 April 1912 en route to New York, and many of the crew came from the city.
        More than 1,500 people died after the White Star Line ship hit an iceberg during her maiden voyage.
        One of the two last surviving passengers, Milvina Dean, 95, from near Southampton, who was just 10 weeks old when the ship went down, did not attend the service due to ill health.
        She was the youngest of the 2,228 people believed to be on board the liner when the tragedy happened.
        Those attending the ceremony included representatives from the other ports linked to Titanic, including Cobh, her home port of Liverpool, and Cherbourg.
        Southampton is hosting a series of exhibitions at its maritime museums to mark the anniversary.
        bron: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hamp ... 557633.stm

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        • #5
          Horloges gemaakt van Titanic te koop.

          Horloges gemaakt van Titanic te koop
          © WMR D.M.

          De Zwitserse horlogemaker Romain Jerome heeft staal en kool van het schip Titanic omgetoverd tot een nieuwe lijn van luxe horloges, waarmee ze claimen de essentie van het legendarische, in 1912 gezonken schip te hebben gevangen. De zogenaamde Titanic-DNA collectie werd afgelopen week in Basel tentoongesteld op een grote vakbeurs. "Het is erg luxe en ontoegankelijk," aldus Yvan Alpa, de baas van het bedrijf. "Er zijn zoveel rijken die ingewikkelde horloges kopen waarvan ze niet eens weten hoe het werkt, omdat ze iets willen vertellen. Aan deze mensen bieden wij een verhaal aan." De horloges zijn te koop voor prijzen van 6.000 tot 130.000 euro.

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          • #6
            Titanic memorabilia's record sale

            Titanic memorabilia's record sale

            Keys belonging to the post room of the Titanic have sold for a record £100,000 at auction in Wiltshire.
            Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said the previous record for the amount paid for memorabilia from the liner was £57,000.
            Also under the hammer in Devizes was a final letter from a passenger who described Titanic as "positive danger", which sold for £28,000.
            The Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, sunk on 15 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg.
            "I had a little feeling that it might do something serious but I never expected it to do the £100,000," said auctioneer Andrew Aldridge.
            "This was a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire a Titanic item of this importance."
            Mr Aldridge said the keys held a particular significance to collectors as the doomed ship's post office staff are reputed to have carried on working even as the vessel sank.
            They were bought by an anonymous buyer from overseas.
            The letter was written by wealthy farmer and landowner Alfred Rowe, 59, to his wife Constance, on 11 April 1912 from Queenstown, Ireland, the ship's last port of call before it sank with the loss of 1,522 lives.
            In it he also complains of the ship's vast size: "My dearest girl, she is too big, you can't find your way about and it takes you too long to get anywhere."
            bron: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wilt ... 580921.stm

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