I finally got the call: after four months of waiting, an authorised dealer phoned to tell me there’s a Rolex Explorer 1 ready to pick up… once I parted with a fistful of cash.
Now I wasn’t expecting to get my first Rolex quite so quickly – I’d planned to wait until I got closer to 40 (I’m 38 at the time of writing) to toast a landmark birthday. However, Rolexes have become slightly easier to get, with the dreaded waitlist not as long as it used to be, though there are exceptions with super-desirable models like the Daytona.
