Necro bump!
A little preface, because my affordable watch buying craze over the last 3 months, I've constantly had watches on the brain.
That said, while I'm not ready to take the step into the luxury watch market yet, I have thought about it a lot lately. The fact that my grail keeps changing is an indication, in my mind, that I'm not ready to take that step yet, but the focus has been narrowing and at this point, it keeps coming back to Rolex.
Thing is, I bought my $100, leather strapped Citizen solar quartz to have a dressier option than my tacticool G Shocks, but I don't love it and I'll probably end up giving it to my brother. For a while, I did lust after a Grand Seiko spring drive, but servicing seems to be the major pain-in-the-ass preventing it from being a grail; and I've decided I am only willing to own one luxury watch in my lifetime.
So I keep coming back to a steel Rolex. There will be more authorized dealers here and as far as I know, it will never have to leave the country for servicing, like the Grand Seiko might have to.