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From a small watch repair business in Haslington 75 years ago to the jewellers we all know and love today, John Pass is celebrating this milestone birthday in a very special way with 75 Moments of Kindness throughout 2023. To find out more about their plans for the coming year, I visited their shop on Nantwich Road in Crewe to talk to its current custodian, Andrew Pass.Andrew tells me the history of the business, which started back in the 1800s with Thomas Edwin Pass, a watchmaker in Coventry, who specialised in making parts for English Lever pocket watches. His son joined him in the business, but competition from Switzerland and America took its toll on English watchmaking, and the family business closed in 1906. Thomas Pass moved to Cheshire, where he worked as a watch repairer. On his retirement, he set up his own watchmaking workshop where he ...