By Maria Ward-Brennan Watches of Switzerland has snapped up a New York-based media company with an editorial focus on wristwatches as the luxury watch seller aims to gain online growth. Hodinkee, a watch website known as an influential editorial and e-commerce site for new and vintage wristwatches, has been sold to the London-listed group for an undisclosed figure. The website and publishing firm has an engaged audience of 22.2m annual unique visitors to its website and over a million social media followers. Watches of Switzerland said the deal came as part of its ‘long range plan objectives’ …