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 — the answer to a question few people thought to ask in the 1990s: what does the world’s greatest digital watchmaker do 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 one of the longest-running references in the line — a clean stainless-steel case, a legible dial with applied indexes, a discreet date at three o’clock, and a proven Japanese quartz movement (a Miyota-built caliber, marked “JAPAN MOV’T” on the case-back) that keeps excellent 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. Decades after its introduction the MTP-1183 is still in Casio’s catalog, essentially unchanged, which is its own kind of design achievement: a watch so right the maker never needed to fix it. Earlier production runs like this one, with the older module stampings, are quietly becoming the “vintage Casio analog” that collectors of honest, unpretentious watches gravitate toward.
About This Watch
This is a Casio MTP-1183 — the black-sunburst-dial version of Casio’s longest-serving analog three-hander, from an earlier production run stamped with module 1332 on the case-back. The dial is the best thing about it: a deep black sunburst that flashes silver under direct light, applied polished baton indexes, slim lancet hands, a framed date window at three o’clock, and nothing else but “CASIO QUARTZ” and “WATER RESIST” 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 SR626SW cell; a Swiss Renata 364 battery is installed.
It comes on its factory-style steel bracelet with a fold-over clasp signed CASIO on both the outer face and the buckle — 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, SR626SW 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 sunburst, 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.
Watch went through a recent service by a professional watch technician 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 recommend adding a new lug width matched leather strap with your order.
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Why Collectors Want This Watch Today
Let’s be honest: the MTP-1183 is not a rare watch — it is something better, a genuine icon of affordability that Casio has kept in production for decades because nothing about it needed fixing. That is exactly why people love it: it is the clean, quiet, steel-on-steel everyday watch that costs less than a dinner out and looks right with everything. Earlier examples like this one, with the older module-1332 stamping and the signed factory bracelet, carry a bit of that “original run” charm the current retail pieces don’t — and this one arrives serviced, tested, and ready to be worn daily, which is what it was always built for.
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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.
