Pairing Apple Watch without two-factor authentication.

I just upgraded to a new iPhone and transferred all of my data from my old iPhone and everything is working perfectly. But when I try to setup my Apple Watch (which was previously paired with my old iPhone running iOS 15 and WatchOS 8), I was asked to reset the watch to factory defaults first, then continue pairing. On the iPhone my apps were still downloading in the background, even first party apps including the Apple Watch app and were taking a lot of time, so I thought I’d pair it later and pressed cancel pairing. Now when I try to pair it, it’s being read as a new watch and I have to enable 2FA in order to pair it, and I can’t do that as my country isn’t listed when I try to add a phone number. Is there any way to do that without 2FA?