French carriage clock

Hi everyone,
Just wanted some information about this clock. I know is a French carriage clock from possibly the early 20th century. I have found many like it but none the same. It has srfa on the top and made in France at the back. The ticker and alarm work on it. I've seen a variety of prices, does anyone know what it's work even with the damage. Can anyone tell me a bit about it, if they know!
Thanks for any help

 

It is a routine time and alarm from, as you say, the early 20th C. SRFA means slow(retarde) fast (advance) and are slow/fast in English and French.

The dial damage will render it of little value as the cost of dial re-making would exceed the value of the timepiece as a commercial proposition. At auction it would probably sell to a collector willing to have a go at bleaching the dirt in the cracks to make them less apparent, rather than getting it properly restored.

A working alarm timepiece will always fetch a bit more than a simple timepiece, but condition would be near fatal for this one. The value in it could be the platform escapement, these have become very expensive so there is some demand for them as replacements for other clocks.

My British auction estimate would be around £30, a nice looking working example would retail for around 4 times that.

No need to find anything identical, it is a generic example so can be compared with other generic examples.

 

Thank you for your help