Pinion is a British watch brand founded by Piers Berry back in 2013. They make watches in small batches with parts sourced from Switzerland and Germany, while assembly is taken care of back in England. They?re not the biggest name in the microbrand scene, but their watches are always carefully considered and they have a devoted base of supporters, which is plain to see from even a cursory look at the brand?s Instagram page. Berry is a watch industry veteran, spending time at both Bremont and Bell & Ross before striking out on his own, and is a graphic designer by trade. That makes sense when you take a close look at the watches he makes, which are uniformly clean and balanced designs, with well chosen color combinations and just the right mix of classical details and modern touches. Pinion?s newest watch, the Neutron, is the brand?s smallest watch so far, and can be seen as a distillation of the Pinion?s core design language. 
The Atom (reviewed here by Brad Homes) was previously Pinion?s smallest watch by diameter, coming in at 39mm. The Neutron is very much a refinement of the Atom, and many of its key design features are actually small adjustments to what Berry designed back in 2017. The Neutron stands at 38mm, and Pinion tells us that considerable effort went into taking length off the watch?s lug span and reducing its height to make it feel more than a single millimeter smaller. The hope was to create a case profile that wasn?t simply smaller in terms of...