Gerald Ross electrician on the Mackay-Bennet describing today the recovery of Col Astor's body which he witnessed, said: Like the others it was floating buoyed by a life belt - Both arms extended upward. The face was swollen, one Jaw was injured. His body was clothed in a business suit and tan shoes
His watch, a costly thing, studded with diamonds was dangling from his pocket. It had stopped at 3:20. Practically all the other watches on bodies recovered had stopped at 2.10.
Encyclopedia Titanica (2024) ASTOR'S WATCH RAN LONG (The Washington Post, Thursday 2nd May 1912, ref: #782, published 24 April 2024, generated 4th December 2024 12:33:18 AM); URL : https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/astors-watch-ran-long.html
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