Can anyone help with this ladymatic??

I can help. It is a watch! Anything else you might like to know? 😁

Serial number dates to ca 1972/3.

Unfortunately there lots of Omegas that there simply isn't any information on especially anything that wasn't cased by Omega in Switzerland.

It's an English cased Ladymatic, so it won't have a Swiss equivalent or Swiss reference number.

Watch movements were often exported to other countries from Switzerland and a local Omega agent would have the watch assembled using locally produced cases.

No, it's quite authentic, no worries there.

As said earlier- it was common to just import movements and dials from Switzerland to an importer and they would have it cased locally to avoid tariffs- happened all over the world and sold by Omega dealers.
Your looks to be a very typical for early 70’s style.

You did just fine for $25-

An extract is unlikely to reveal anything about your watch and would cost more than the watch is actually worth.

Again, it's perfectly genuine, just wear it and enjoy.

It needs a service, sounds like cap jewel on the balance is out of whack or worn out.

This is a classic broken balance staff symptom...

Ugh. Yeah- I went back to the photos and that cap jewel looks locked in.

What @Archer is saying is that the movement has a broken part, unfortunately this will be a costly repair, exceeding what the watch is worth by several times.

Ok, this is a cap jewel.



So that spinning thing is the balance, it has a hairsping on top. That is the heartbeat of the watch. The balance is mounted to a shaft called the “balance staff “ and that sits in a jewel at the bottom and one at the top and those jewels help keep it as friction free as possible (as opposed to metal on metal). They are designed to take some shock but a really hard impact can dislodge the jewels or break that staff.
So sometimes if it has taken a hard shock and it won’t run at all- it’s usually a badly broken balance staff. If it runs in one position, either a jewel is unseated, or the staff broke on one end or the other- so when down it sits properly on one jewel but when flipped it goes out of alignment and won’t run.

Either way, it’s not good and requires a watchmaker to get a new balance complete, or a staff and fit the current balance to that, and/or the jeweled “seats” that the staff sit in- or all the above.

It all comes down to how much do you want to invest into the watch