Description
CASIO vintage quartz watch
JAPANESE MOVEMENT
“Casio” is simply the founder’s family name — Kashio (樫尾) — anglicized for the world.
What began in the rubble of post-war Tokyo in 1946 as Kashio Seisakujo, a tiny subcontracting workshop run by Tadao Kashio, became one of the great stories of Japanese engineering: in 1957 Tadao and his three brothers unveiled the 14-A — the world’s first compact all-electric calculator — and Casio Computer Co., Ltd. was born.
Casio came to watches the same way it came to everything — through electronics. In 1974 it launched the Casiotron, the first digital watch that knew the calendar by itself, and by 1983 the legendary G-Shock had made Casio a household name on every continent. The quiet flip side of all that digital fame is Casio’s analog catalog — clean, honest, three-handed quartz watches built with the same engineering pragmatism and sold in the millions.
About the MTP Classic Analog Line
🕰️ The MTP series is Casio’s classic analog line — what the company best known for digital watches does with three hands and a date window.
The answer was characteristically Casio: strip away everything unnecessary and engineer the rest properly. The MTP-1183 is a long-running reference in the line — a clean stainless-steel case, a legible dial with applied indexes, a discreet date at three o’clock, and a Japanese Miyota quartz movement (marked “JAPAN MOV’T” on the case-back) that keeps good time and asks for nothing but a battery every couple of years.
These watches were never meant to be luxury objects — they were meant to be everywhere, and they are. The MTP-1183 is still in Casio’s catalog today in its MTP-1183A form, essentially unchanged. This example comes from an earlier run, stamped with module 1332 on the case-back.
About This Watch
This is a Casio MTP-1183 — the black-dial version on a steel bracelet, from an earlier production run stamped with module 1332 on the case-back. The dial is flat matte black with no sunburst brushing: it reads uniformly dark and picks up only a soft sheen off-axis. Applied polished baton indexes, slim baton hands, a framed date window at three o’clock, and “CASIO QUARTZ”, “WATER RESIST” and “JAPAN MOVT” in crisp white print.
The case is brushed and polished stainless steel with an integrated-look end-link design, closed by a snap-on steel case-back engraved “JAPAN MOV’T — CASED IN CHINA” — Casio’s standard recipe for the line: a Japanese Miyota 2115 quartz caliber, dependable and easily serviced, in an efficiently produced case. It runs on a common SR621SW cell; a Swiss Renata 364 — the SR621SW equivalent — is installed.
It comes on its factory-style steel bracelet with a fold-over clasp signed CASIO — see the clasp and sizing photos in the gallery.
Technical Specifications
- Brand: Casio
- Line: MTP Classic Analog
- Model Reference: MTP-1183 (black dial variant MTP-1183A-1A)
- Movement: Japanese quartz, Miyota 2115 — 3 hands with date, marked UNADJUSTED / NO JEWELS on the plate, SR621SW battery (Renata 364 installed)
- Module: 1332
- Era: Long-running catalog classic; this is an earlier production run (module 1332)
- Case Material: Stainless steel, snap-on steel case-back
- Case Diameter: Approx. 36 mm excl. crown (catalog figure — caliper measurement pending)
- Dial: Black matte, applied silver indexes, framed date window at 3 o’clock
- Crystal: Mineral glass
- Case-back: “[1332]MTP-1183 · ST. STEEL BACK · WATER RESISTANT · JAPAN MOV’T · CASED IN CHINA”
- Country of Manufacture: Japanese movement, cased in China
Condition Report
The dial is clean and crisp, with no spotting or fading; hands and indexes are bright. The mineral crystal is clear, with no chips or scratches visible to the naked eye. The case shows only light hairlines from normal wear — no dings, no polishing damage. The case-back carries light service scratches around the edge, as expected for a watch that has been opened for battery changes. The signed CASIO bracelet is tight, with no stretch, and closes securely.
This watch has recently been serviced by a professional watchmaker and keeps good time.
Comes complete with original steel bracelet*. (*)Note: Stock bracelets are often shortened by previous owners and may not fit you(see bracelet size in the product images). We match the strap to this watch’s lug width, so there is nothing for you to measure — just pick a padded leather strap from the options at the top of the page.
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Why Collectors Want This Watch Today
The MTP-1183 is not a rare watch. Casio has kept it in production for years and sold it in quantity, which is the point of it: a clean, quiet, steel-on-steel everyday watch that looks right with almost anything. This example is an earlier run, with the module-1332 case-back stamp and the signed factory bracelet, and it arrives serviced and tested.
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Lug width matched leather straps: 18mm - 19mm - 20mm
About the watch factory
Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (カシオ計算機株式会社, Kashio Keisanki kabushiki gaisha) grew out of a small Tokyo workshop founded by Tadao Kashio in April 1946, and was formally established in June 1957 — the year the four Kashio brothers launched the 14-A, the world’s first compact all-electric calculator. Calculators, digital cameras, musical instruments, and watches followed, all built on the same idea: take something mechanical, rethink it electronically, and make it affordable to everyone.
Casio entered watchmaking in 1974 with the Casiotron — the first digital wristwatch with a fully automatic calendar — and never looked back. The G-Shock (1983) made the company a global icon of toughness, while the humble F-91W became arguably the most-worn watch in human history. Today Casio’s watch operations are anchored by the Hamura R&D Center outside Tokyo and the Yamagata Casio factory in northern Japan — the company’s “mother factory,” running since 1979 — while high-volume classics like the MTP analog series pair Japanese-made movements with efficient assembly plants in China, keeping the watches honest, dependable, and affordable.
From the Casiotron to the G-Shock to the office three-hander, Casio’s place in horological history is secure: no company did more to put reliable timekeeping on every wrist on Earth.
