I've had it with Hodinkee

Never happens here, ever

I think Watch Snob makes more sense to me at the moment.

Seriously.

I admire their enthusiasm as I have yet to read a negative review of a watch. Sort of if I should review sex with Victoria's Secret models.

Also annoying that half the articles are updates on new watches for sale in their shop.

Watch "journalism" rarely has much in the way journalism involved - I would say there's more here on this forum than you will find on most watch blogs. If they are getting watches from companies to review, they are unlikely to bite the hands that feed them said watches...

I'm actually not very cranky...at least most of the time. There was no "crankiness" involved in the post above, just the truth. 😀

Note - smiley added to ensure no crankiness is construed from this post.

I can only comment from the point of view of a maker. I get requests to supply watches for review pretty regularly, and it's often in exchange for a free watch. All such requests are politely declined. The most egregious example was getting separate requests on the same day, from 2 different people at the same site, telling me in detail about their "unbiased reviews" that they would give me in exchange for a free watch. It was clear that the right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing, so I copied and pasted one of their emails into the other and sent my reply back to both of them, stating that I don't give watches away in exchange for reviews, and that they should really coordinate their requests a little better. 😉

I have only ever supplied one watch for a review that I can recall, and that was because I knew the reviewer personally.

The last request was from Canadian Geographic magazine earlier this year, as the publisher was doing an article on the watch industry in Canada. When I expressed only luke warm interest in the project, and told him I usually decline such requests, he went on and on about how much exposure I would get from it. I don't deny he was right, but it was a pretty open admission that it was really mostly a marketing exercise, with a little bit of industry focus included. I asked some follow-up questions, but they were never answered. I have no idea if the project ever went forward...

Besides the occasional "Talking Watches" or "Reference Points" posts, the only regular vintage content on Hodinkee are either their Bring A Loupe feature (on vintage watches for sale around the internet) or their Store features (on vintage watches for sale on their own website).

It's really become a modern press-release / review site, though I do think their "Week on the Wrist" articles are fairly well written in comparison to many of their competitors.