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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 217588, member: 25&quot;]It&nbsp; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>My British auction estimate would be around £30, a nice looking working example would retail for around 4 times that.</p><p><br /></p><p>No need to find anything identical, it is a generic example so can be compared with other generic examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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