https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/en-auCopyright (C) 2026 newslocker.comThu, 30 Jul 2026 03:38:00 +0200 That is the most expensive watch ever sold at auction in Australia. The previous mark was $450,000, set by a 1946 Patek Philippe ref. 1436 through the same house in late 2023, and it has now been cleared by $162,000.
There is a second, quieter record in there too. First State says this is the first]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/anonymous-aussie-tech-founder-auction-delivers-massive-result/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:38:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/anonymous-aussie-tech-founder-auction-delivers-massive-result/ The numbers caught up. CarsGuide reports Audi Australia is down 11.2 per cent across the first half of 2026, the worst of the German three, against BMW at 8.0 per cent and Mercedes at 1.7.
Then, inside six months, three of the co]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/audi-did-stuff-all-for-years-then-dropped-three-of-the-coolest-cars-going-around/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:50:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/audi-did-stuff-all-for-years-then-dropped-three-of-the-coolest-cars-going-around/ Winter 2026 opens with his young, style-obsessed cast drifting through Paris with nowhere to be, until one of them spots a small plaque set into the footpath outside the Dior boutique. A woman in a yellow dress. The name reads Paul Poiret.
If that means nothing to you, here's why it should. Poiret worked a few doors from Dior on the same street a century ago. He c]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/dior-winter-2026-mens-collection-is-jonathan-anderson-picking-a-street-fight-with-fashion-and-winning/Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:04:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/dior-winter-2026-mens-collection-is-jonathan-anderson-picking-a-street-fight-with-fashion-and-winning/ I read it again this morning, hours after signing over my 2019 Audi RS4 Avant. Five years on, apparently I have learned nothing. Nothing, I tells ya.
The RS4 was the car I drove every day. Home to wor]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/i-sold-my-audi-rs4-after-five-years-and-the-science-says-i-am-allowed-to-be-sad/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/i-sold-my-audi-rs4-after-five-years-and-the-science-says-i-am-allowed-to-be-sad/ I read it again this morning, hours after signing over my 2019 Audi RS4 Avant. Five years on, apparently I have learned nothing. Nothing, I tells ya.
The RS4 was the car I drove every day. Home to wor]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/i-sold-my-audi-rs4-after-five-years-and-science-says-i-am-allowed-to-be-sad/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:05:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/i-sold-my-audi-rs4-after-five-years-and-science-says-i-am-allowed-to-be-sad/ According to its research, Australians are overspending by an estimated $6.4 billion a year while travelling, thanks to what the company calls "vacay maths”, the phenomenon that sees spending go out the windo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/australians-are-overspending-by-64-billion-a-year-on-holidays-and-heres-why-2/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/australians-are-overspending-by-64-billion-a-year-on-holidays-and-heres-why-2/ According to its research, Australians are overspending by an estimated $6.4 billion a year while travelling, thanks to what the company calls "vacay maths”, the phenomenon that sees spending go out the windo]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/australians-are-overspending-by-64-billion-a-year-on-holidays-and-heres-why/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/australians-are-overspending-by-64-billion-a-year-on-holidays-and-heres-why/ BYD’s premium brand has taken a sleek grand tourer-style sedan and given the top-spec version performance figures that would not look out of place on a Ferrari or Bugatti spec sheet.
It is the sort of thing that makes you stop and check the numbers twice.
RELATED: The Z9GT Is Denza’]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/byds-denza-z9s-is-bringing-supercar-numbers-to-a-luxury-sedan/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:35:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/byds-denza-z9s-is-bringing-supercar-numbers-to-a-luxury-sedan/ The premium EV brand has opened bookings for Zeekr On Ice, an exclusive customer event combining luxury hospitality with a full day of ice driving at the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds in Queenstown.
The bigger hook is what participants will actually be driving. Alongside Zeekr's current Australian lineup, guests will get behind the wheel of two models that]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/zeekr-wants-australians-to-drive-its-future-evs-on-ice-before-anyone-else/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/zeekr-wants-australians-to-drive-its-future-evs-on-ice-before-anyone-else/ The company's 8.0-litre quad-turbocharged W16 has been one of the great engineering achievements in road car history for more than 20 years.
It powered the Veyron that rewrote the hypercar rulebook, the Chiron that pushed performance further again, and every major Bugatti that followed.
Now that the run has officially ended. Bugatti has unveiled the 99th and final Mistral, the last series production car that will ev]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/the-last-bugatti-w16-has-been-built-and-it-marks-the-end-of-a-hypercar-legend/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/the-last-bugatti-w16-has-been-built-and-it-marks-the-end-of-a-hypercar-legend/ This one does not just borrow Omega's name and the Speedmaster shape. It adds 11 grams of 18K Moonshine Gold, caps the run at 1,969 pieces, and requires every buyer to fill out a 32-q]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/the-gold-moonswatch-is-swatchs-answer-to-the-royal-pop-meltdown/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/the-gold-moonswatch-is-swatchs-answer-to-the-royal-pop-meltdown/ That slide looks to be reversing. Fresh data from Morgan Stanley, built on WatchCharts pricing, shows secondary market value retention improved across seven of the eight major Swiss brands it tracks in the second quarter of 2026.
Buyers are still paying below]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/luxury-watch-prices-are-climbing-again-and-rolex-isnt-the-biggest-surprise/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/luxury-watch-prices-are-climbing-again-and-rolex-isnt-the-biggest-surprise/ That's because Nolan's latest epic is the first feature film ever shot entirely on IMAX 15/70 film, the highest-resolution film format in existence.
Only 41 cinemas in the world can project it exactly as intended. Australia has one. That cinema sits in Melbourne, the only IMAX 15/70 screen in Australia and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere.
RELATED: Christopher Nol]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/christopher-nolans-new-film-can-only-be-seen-properly-in-41-cinemas-and-australia-has-one/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:26:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/christopher-nolans-new-film-can-only-be-seen-properly-in-41-cinemas-and-australia-has-one/ The Rolex Cosmograph Daytona "Rainbow" that we flagged earlier this month as a genuine record threat finished at $510,000 on the hammer, landing inside its $500,000 to $600,000 estimate.
Add First State Auctions' 20% buyer's premium and the winning bidder is committed to $612,000 before customs, duties or anything else.
The previous Australian benchmark was $450,000, set in late 2023 when a 1946 Pate]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/rainbow-rolex-sets-new-australian-watch-auction-record/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:12:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/rainbow-rolex-sets-new-australian-watch-auction-record/ The Manchester City striker was recently filmed as a passenger in a Bugatti Chiron making its way through Monaco's streets, with onlookers capturing the moment as he stepped out. View this post on InstagramA post shared by VDH automotive (@vdhautomotive)He was not behind]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/erling-haaland-was-the-passenger-in-monacos-most-famous-bugatti-and-his-own-garage-is-wilder/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/erling-haaland-was-the-passenger-in-monacos-most-famous-bugatti-and-his-own-garage-is-wilder/ BYD's head of international operations, Stella Li, thinks that assumption is outdated.
When asked about founder Wang Chuanfu's goal of overtaking Toyota as the world's largest carmaker within five years, Li said the company does not need the US market to get there.
BYD is currently locked out of selling passenger cars in America by tariffs and restrictions on Chinese]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/byd-is-chasing-toyotas-crown-and-has-decided-it-doesnt-need-america-to-get-there/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:46:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/byd-is-chasing-toyotas-crown-and-has-decided-it-doesnt-need-america-to-get-there/ We used to be that guy. Then we made one with 1800 Añejo instead of bourbon, and suddenly the Old Fashioned had a whole new dimension we hadn't considered.
Same language, different accent
The Old Fashioned is not really a whiskey drink. It's a spirit-forward drink that happens to hav]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/the-old-fashioned-cocktail-switch-you-didnt-know-you-were-missing/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:37:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/the-old-fashioned-cocktail-switch-you-didnt-know-you-were-missing/ Instead of glass, drivers got a roof-mounted camera feeding a digital rear-view mirror. Polestar argued the change created more space for rear passengers and pointed toward where automotive design was heading.
Three years on, the company is heading somewhere slightly different.The new Polestar 4 SUV is a more practical sibling to the existing Coupé, and i]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/polestar-tried-to-kill-the-rear-window-and-has-now-built-a-car-with-one/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/polestar-tried-to-kill-the-rear-window-and-has-now-built-a-car-with-one/ The same goes for the John Mayer Daytona and the Panda and countless other references that became legends through years of enthusiastic discussion in rooms Rolex had nothing to do with.
Now another Daytona may be working its way into that tradition.
After winning back-to-back Wimbledon titles in 2025 and 2026, Sinner celebrated both victories wearing exactly the same watch]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/jannik-sinner-may-have-accidentally-created-rolexs-next-famous-daytona/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/jannik-sinner-may-have-accidentally-created-rolexs-next-famous-daytona/ The Neue Klasse iX3, BMW's long-awaited electric range, is due to launch in China this November. It arrives at a difficult moment.
China remains BMW's biggest single market, yet the German brand is heading toward a third consecutive year of declining sales]]>https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/bmws-biggest-market-has-changed-and-the-neue-klasse-needs-to-prove-it-was-worth-the-wait/Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:59:00 +0200https://www.newslocker.com/en-au/news/fashion/bmws-biggest-market-has-changed-and-the-neue-klasse-needs-to-prove-it-was-worth-the-wait/