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Rare Vintage Casio ME-100 Limited Edition Men’s Digital Sports Watch JDM 1990s

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Up for sale is an extremely rare vintage Casio ME-100 Data Memory 30 men’s digital watch from the 1990s, produced for the Japan Domestic Market (JDM) as a limited collaboration with the United Future Organization (U.F.O.). This special edition was created in connection with the multidisciplinary creative collective Tomato, with design input from Simon Taylor, resulting in one of the most unique and culturally significant Casio releases of the era. This ME-100 features a distinctive oval-shaped LCD set within an offset stainless steel case, giving it a futuristic and unconventional profile. The dot matrix display supports multiple functions including data memory (30-entry databank), alarm, stopwatch, and world time. A standout feature of this collaboration is the hidden “Tomato” design element — when the EL backlight is activated, three circular shapes representing tomatoes appear on the display, tying directly into the artistic concept behind the watch. All parts of the watch are original, including the stainless steel case and the original Casio stainless steel bracelet signed “United Future Organization.” The caseback is engraved with “TOMATO,” “United Future Organization,” and three circular motifs, further reinforcing the collaborative design. The watch is in full working condition, and all features and functions of the watch are operating properly. The watch shows signs of use and age, and the photos best describe its physical condition. This is an exceptionally rare example of a Casio collaboration piece that blends music, design, and technology from a pivotal creative era in Japan. Pieces like this are seldom seen on the market and are highly sought after by collectors of vintage Casio, JDM watches, and design collaborations. Key Details: • Brand: Casio • Model: ME-100 Data Memory 30 (United Future Organization x Tomato) • Module: 1672 • Era: 1990s • Market: Japan Domestic Market (JDM) • Display: Digital (dot matrix) • Functions: Databank (30 entries), alarm, stopwatch, world time, EL backlight • Bracelet: Original Casio stainless steel bracelet signed “United Future Organization” • Condition: Fully working; shows signs of use and age An extremely rare and collectible Casio collaboration piece combining innovative design with cultural significance from the 1990s. Ships carefully. Feel free to message me with any questions.
BRAND:
Casio
UNIT CONDITION:
Pre-owned - Good
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► ARCHIVE FILE: CASIO — BRAND HISTORY

Casio began not with watches but with calculation. Tadao Kashio founded Kashio Seisakujo in Tokyo in 1946, and with his three brothers developed the 14-A in 1957, the world's first compact all-electric relay calculator, incorporating the business as Casio Computer Co. that same year. The move into watchmaking came in November 1974 with the Casiotron, a digital watch whose claim to fame was an automatic calendar that knew how many days each month had, a small feat of logic that announced how an electronics firm would approach timekeeping.

Casio's landmark is the G-Shock. Engineer Kikuo Ibe, after breaking a treasured watch given to him by his father, set out to build one that could not break, chasing a triple-10 target: survive a 10-meter drop, resist water to 10 bar, and run 10 years on a battery. After roughly 200 prototypes, the insight that a module floating within a hollow structure could absorb shock, inspired by watching a rubber ball bounce, produced the DW-5000C in April 1983. Its square case and protective philosophy still define the line today.

Around it grew a catalog of quietly important watches. The F-91W of 1989, a featherweight resin digital with alarm, stopwatch, and a battery that runs for years, became one of the best-selling watches ever made and remains in production essentially unchanged. The Databank series from 1984 put a phone directory on the wrist, calculator watches like the CA-50 turned up in Hollywood films, and the A158 and A168 on steel bracelets carried the same plain-spoken design language to dressier wrists.

Vintage Casio collecting rewards attention to module numbers, the small code on the case back that identifies the electronics inside. Early screw-back G-Shocks such as the DW-5000C and DW-5600C command real money, original Casiotrons are genuinely scarce, and clean examples of 1980s models with intact resin and bright displays get harder to find every year, since polymer cases age in a way steel does not. It is one of the few corners of collecting where the landmark pieces remain affordable.

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