Shackleton expedition watch sells for £2.6k

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 auction.

The George V Antarctic Expedition open face pocket watch was taken on the SY Aurora during Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition between 1914 and 1917.

In 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 1916.

The 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.

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