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The Swiss Standard For Watchmaking Has Just Received A Big Upgrade
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GMSV And Big Dog Builds Just Created Three Silverado HDs That’ll Make Your LandCruiser Feel Inadequate
via dmarge.comIf you thought the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 Heavy Duty was already a bit much for the Woolies car park, GM Specialty Vehicles and Queensland custom outfit Big Dog Builds would like a word.The two have teamed up to create three modified Silverado HD show trucks, each one more ridiculously capable than the last, and all three are being unveiled this weekend at the Brisbane 4x4 Show.
Three Trucks, Three Very Different Personalities
The builds start with the same bones: a Silverado 2500 HD with its
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Breitling’s New Collingwood Superocean Might Be the Most Divisive Watch in Australian Sport
via dmarge.comThere are watches that divide opinion, and then there's slapping a Magpie crest on the caseback of a Swiss timepiece. Breitling Oceania has just announced a multi-year partnership with the Collingwood Football Club, and to mark it, they've launched the Superocean 44 Collingwood Limited Edition, restricted to just 125 pieces and available exclusively in Australia.
Black, White, and 18k Red Gold on the Wrist
The watch itself builds on the existing Superocean 44 platform but gets a full Collingwoo
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The Best Watch Cleaning Kits To Keep Your Timepiece Looking Fresh
via dmarge.comIf you're reading this, you've probably looked down at your bracelet recently and realised it's not quite the watch you bought. The polished links have gone dull. There's a visible line of grime between every second row. And the less said about what's hiding under the clasp, the better.
You're not alone. Most watch owners don't clean their watches nearly enough, and when they do, it's usually with a toothbrush and dish soap, which is better than nothing but about as effective as washing your ca
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A $39,000 Business Class Seat From Sydney to London Proves The World Is Cooked
via dmarge.comThese are real numbers, pulled from the Cathay Pacific website for a Sunday 12 April departure. And they're not error fares. They're what the market is actually demanding right now. We were on the hunt for airwares for Watches & Wonders when these popped up.The reason isn't complicated. With conflict continuing to grip the Middle East, travellers are actively avoiding the Gulf hubs that have dominated premium long-haul routing for the past decade. Dubai, Doha, Abu Dhabi: the holy trinity of
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BMW Is Sitting On A Weapon And Refuse To Pull The Trigger
via dmarge.comI'll say upfront: I'm a wagon guy. I own a B9 RS4 Avant and I will defend the long roof to anyone who'll listen (and several people who won't). So when I tell you BMW is sitting on the bones of a genuinely great electric wagon and doing absolutely nothing with it, understand this isn't idle wishlisting. This is frustration.
The BMW i4 M50 is, for all intents and purposes, already 90% of the way there.
It's a four-door liftback. It's got the sleek, low-slung proportions that make wagons look goo
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Toto Wolff Was Spotted Wearing Two IWC Watches In Melbourne, And His Response Was Peak Toto
via dmarge.comIf you needed any further proof that Toto Wolff is operating on a completely different frequency to the rest of us, the Mercedes boss was spotted walking around the Albert Park paddock during qualifying wearing not one, but two IWC watches. One on each wrist. Like a man who has simply decided the normal rules don't apply to him anymore.
And look, after locking out the front row with George Russell on pole and Kimi Antonelli right behind him, maybe they don't.
RELATED: Toto Wolff’s New IWC
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What Rolex Will Release In 2026… Based On What They’ve Actually Done Over The Past Five Years
via dmarge.comEvery year the Rolex prediction cycle follows the same pattern. Forums light up, YouTubers start rendering watches that don't exist, and half the predictions are based on anniversaries that Rolex itself couldn't care less about. Then April rolls around, Rolex drops something nobody expected, and everyone pretends they saw it coming.
But if you actually track how Rolex has operated since 2021, a few patterns are genuinely useful. They don't chase anniversaries. They do iterate on new collections
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What Rolex Will (And Won’t) Release In 2026, Based On What They’ve Actually Done Over The Past Five Years
via dmarge.comEvery year the Rolex prediction cycle follows the same pattern. Forums light up, YouTubers start rendering watches that don't exist, and half the predictions are based on anniversaries that Rolex itself couldn't care less about. Then April rolls around, Rolex drops something nobody expected, and everyone pretends they saw it coming.
But if you actually track how Rolex has operated since 2021, a few patterns are genuinely useful. They don't chase anniversaries. They do iterate on new collections
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10 Awesome Gifts For Watch Enthusiasts
via dmarge.comBuying a gift for a watch person is either the easiest thing in the world or an absolute nightmare. Easy, because they'll happily accept another watch. Nightmare, because the one they actually want costs more than your car. And nobody wants a Fossil.The good news is the watch world is full of gear, tools and accessories that collectors genuinely use but would never think to buy themselves. We're talking proper cleaning kits, Swiss-made tools that don't scratch your lugs, travel rolls that mean
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Cadillac Drops New Electric SUVs For Australia, Timed Perfectly With Its F1 Debut
via dmarge.comCadillac has revealed Australian and New Zealand pricing for two new all-electric SUVs, the compact OPTIQ and the three-row VISTIQ, expanding its local lineup to three models just days before the brand makes its Formula 1 debut at the Melbourne Grand Prix.
The timing is no accident.Cadillac is trying to reintroduce itself to a market that hasn't thought about the brand in decades, and having your name plastered across an F1 car at Albert Park while simultaneously rolling out new metal is about
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These Are The Most Important Car Brands In Australia Right Now… For Reasons Other Than Sales
via dmarge.comEvery January, the Australian car industry does the same thing. VFACTS drops, everyone argues about who sold the most Rangers, and the narrative resets around volume. Who's up, who's down, who cracked the top 10. And look, that stuff matters if you're a dealer trying to hit targets. But it tells you almost nothing about which brands are actually shaping where this market goes next.
Influence is different to popularity. It's about who's forcing everyone else to react. On technology, on pricing,
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The Most Important Car Brands In Australia Right Now… For Reasons Other Than Sales
via dmarge.comEvery January, the Australian car industry does the same thing. VFACTS drops, everyone argues about who sold the most Rangers, and the narrative resets around volume. Who's up, who's down, who cracked the top 10. That stuff matters if you're a dealer trying to hit targets but it tells you almost nothing about which brands are actually shaping where this market goes next.Influence is different to popularity. We're focused on technology, on pricing, on regulation, on how cars get sold, and on wha
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Cruise Ships Just Got A Whole Lot Cleaner (And It’s About Time)
via dmarge.comIllness outbreaks on cruise ships have plummeted 88% in the first two months of this year compared to the same period in 2025. We're talking one single outbreak versus eight. One. That's it.
The lone offender? A January sailing on Seven Seas Mariner where 21 passengers (3.3% of those onboard) went down. For context, the CDC only flags it as an official outbreak when 3% or more of passengers and crew report gastrointestinal illness. So this one barely scraped over the line.Last year was a differ
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This Zeekr People Mover Just Landed in Australia And It’s More Luxurious Than Most Private Jets
via dmarge.comWhen Zeekr invited us to test the 009, we already knew what they were capable of. More importantly, we’d seen them around Sydney and liked the vibe of this anti-people mover.
We'd driven the X and fallen quietly in love with the Zeekr 7GT at the Electric Car Show. So when they offered the 009, a sub $140,000 Chinese electric people mover, we were curious rather than sceptical. After a day driving it around Sydney, hand on heart, this might be the best thing Zeekr makes.
The Zeekr 00
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The Rolex Pepsi GMT Is Dead. Secondary Market Chaos Has Already Begun.
via dmarge.comThe Rolex Pepsi GMT Is Dead. Secondary Market Chaos Has Already Begun.
If you've been sitting on a Rolex GMT Master II Pepsi, today's a good day. If you've been sitting on a waitlist for one, not so much.
WatchPro has confirmed that Rolex has officially pulled the pin on the steel GMT Master II with the iconic red and blue "Pepsi" bezel, notifying authorised dealers that no more deliveries are coming. Customers still on waiting lists are being told, politely but firmly, to start looking at othe
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Rolex Sold A Staggering Number Of Watches In 2025
via dmarge.comAccording to Morgan Stanley and LuxeConsult's annual Swiss Watcher report, the Crown pushed its sales up 4 percent to crack CHF 11 billion (roughly $14 billion AUD) for the first time ever.That's a staggering number on its own, but here's the kicker: Rolex actually put fewer watches into the market to get there. Production dropped 2 percent, marking the second consecutive year of declining output, something that hasn't happened in over two decades.
Let that sink in. Fewer watches. More money. T
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TAG Heuer’s New Connected Watch Turns Your Wrist Into a Live F1 Pit Wall
via dmarge.comTAG Heuer is kicking off the 2026 Formula 1 season with a connected watch instead of a mechanical chronograph, and it might be the smartest thing the brand has done with the Connected line yet.
The TAG Heuer Connected Calibre E5 45mm x Formula 1 is a special edition built around a dedicated Formula 1 digital experience, and it goes deeper than a branded dial and a red colour accent.
The main attraction for this watch is the exclusive Formula 1 app and the Race Track hero watch face, which autom
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Volvo’s Tiniest EV Is Low-Key One Of The Coolest Cars On Australian Roads Right Now
via dmarge.comThere's a Volvo doing the rounds in Australia and it's doing something I genuinely didn't think a Volvo could do: making me look twice in a car park. The EX30 is the Swedish brand's smallest car, a compact electric hatch that starts under sixty grand, and it's got absolutely no business being this good-looking.
I've been spotting them around Noosa lately and every time one rolls past I find myself doing that thing where you half turn your head and think, "wait, what was that?"
That almost never
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IWC’s Most Popular Chronograph Just Went Full Stealth In Scratch-Proof Ceratanium
via dmarge.comThe Portugieser Chronograph gets its first all-black treatment, and IWC's proprietary material makes sure it stays that way.
The Portugieser Chronograph has been one of IWC Schaffhausen's most recognisable watches since it launched in 1998. Two vertically stacked subdials, a clean inner flange with a quarter-second scale, and that unmistakable blend of dressy proportions with sporty intent. It's a design that hasn't needed much tweaking over the years, which is usually a sign that something was
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Raymond Weil’s Award-Winning Millesime Just Got a Black-Tie Makeover
via dmarge.comThe Geneva Maison celebrates its 50th anniversary by dressing its most acclaimed collection in tuxedo-inspired dials, and the result is one of the most compelling watches under $2,500.
The Millesime Small Seconds already had form. It took home the Challenge Prize at the 2023 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève, an award reserved for the best watches under CHF 2,000, which put Raymond Weil in rare company for an independent, family-owned brand competing against the usual Swiss heavyweights.
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A. Lange & Söhne Just Opened Its Most Ambitious Boutique Right Here In Sydney
via dmarge.comA. Lange & Söhne has officially planted its flag in Sydney, opening a three-storey flagship boutique at 129 King Street that might just be the most impressive watch retail space in the country.
The German manufacture, which cranks out only a few thousand wristwatches a year from its base in the tiny Saxon town of Glashütte, opened the doors late last year.At 306 square metres spread across three floors, it's a serious statement of intent for the Australian market, and a signal tha
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The B9 Audi RS 4 Just Became A Whole Lot More Collectible. Thank The RS 5 For That.
via dmarge.comThe new RS 5, which is what Audi is now calling the RS 4's successor thanks to a naming reshuffle where odd numbers mean combustion and even numbers mean electric, was revealed this week. And while the spec sheet reads like the kind of thing that should have RS fans salivating, there's a problem. A 580-kilogram problem, to be specific.
The headline number is 470kW. That's what you get when you bolt a 130kW electric motor onto the familiar 2.9-litre twin-turbo V6, stuff a 25.9kWh battery pack un
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The Ute That Could Nerf the Ford Ranger Costs $15,000 Less and Tows the Same
via dmarge.comThe dual-cab ute segment just got its most interesting wildcard in years. Chery has pulled the covers off the KP31 concept in Sydney, a diesel plug-in hybrid ute that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world, and if it delivers on even half its promises, the establishment should be nervous.
Here are our top reasons it should be worth waiting for...
It's the world's first diesel PHEV ute.Every other plug-in hybrid ute on the Australian market (the BYD Shark 6, GWM Cannon Alpha, Ford Ranger PHEV)
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How To Keep Almost Every Watch Looking Like New
via dmarge.comHere's the thing about us watch collectors. We'll spend three months agonising over whether to buy a piece, fly interstate to try it on, read every forum thread ever written about it, and then wear it daily without cleaning it once.We treat the purchase like a sacred ritual but the maintenance like an afterthought. And it shows.
I pulled a bracelet off a Tudor the other day to swap in a strap and nearly dry-retched. Months of dead skin, sweat, sunscreen and what I can only describe as inner-cit
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The EV Brand Nobody’s Talking About Deserves More Respect
via dmarge.comEveryone's busy arguing about whether Tesla's lost the plot or if BYD is the next Toyota, and meanwhile MG has quietly slipped a premium EV sub-brand into the Australian market that makes most of its competition look like it's still figuring out homework.
IM, presented by MG Motor, landed in Australia in 2025 with two models: the IM5 sedan and the IM6 SUV. And unless you've been paying close attention, you probably missed it. Which is a shame, because what's sitting underneath these two cars is
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Audi’s New RS 5 Is A 470kW Plug-In Hybrid And I Have Strong Feelings About It
via dmarge.comAs the current owner of a B9 RS4 Avant, and a self-confessed wagon tragic, I've been watching Audi Sport's next move with more than casual interest. And now it's here: the new Audi RS 5, packing a plug-in hybrid powertrain making 470kW. Yes, you read that right. The RS has gone electric. Well, partially.
Before the purists start sharpening their pitchforks, let's get into what Audi Sport has actually done here, because it's more interesting than you might think.
The Numbers That Matter
Audi RS
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Don Bradman’s Personal Number Plates Just Hit Auction, And They’re About As Aussie As It Gets
via dmarge.comCollecting Cars, the online auction platform that's become the go-to for petrolheads and collectors alike, is currently offering up a piece of Australian history that has nothing to do with cars and everything to do with our greatest ever sportsman.
NSW Heritage Number Plate '1114' is up for grabs, and before you scroll past thinking it's just a set of old plates, here's the thing: this combination was gifted to Sir Donald Bradman himself after the historic 1930 Ashes series. You know, the one
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The Fastest Growing Watch Brand In The World Isn’t Who You Think It Is
via dmarge.comIf you'd told watch nerds five years ago that Jacob & Co. would one day top a Morgan Stanley growth chart, they'd have laughed you out of the room. For a long time, Jacob & Co. was the brand you associated with rapper chains, diamond-encrusted everything, and watches that looked like they belonged in a Dubai nightclub rather than a serious collection.
But while the Swiss watch industry was busy contracting in 2025, with export volumes sliding and most of the big names treading water, Ja
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We Drove a Six-Metre American Pickup to Bathurst… But Is Australia Ready For It?
via dmarge.comWe were at the Bathurst 12 Hour for the Corvette. If you haven't seen the C8.R in the flesh, doing laps of Mount Panorama at pace, add it to the list. It's one of those things that recalibrates your sense of what a car actually is. But that's a story for another day, because on the way there, something else entirely stole the show.
The Chevrolet Silverado 2500 HD. Six metres long, 6.6-litre Duramax turbo-diesel V8 under the bonnet, and 1,322 newton metres of torque on tap. That last number is w
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