Casio Meta ME-110 - Matsuri Productions

I like mysterious watches, and so have gained a fascination with the Casio Meta range. The Meta range seems to have been released sometime in the 90s, and most of the watches I've seen have been special editions with some sort of collaboration. The Meta range came in 3 watch designs, and had quite a sci-fi feel.

This watch is a collaboration with Matsuri Productions, and is the second Meta watch I've got with that collaboration. The other is a ME-120M.

Matsuri Productions were a psychedelic trance record label from the UK, who were founded in 1994. The label was founded by John Perloff and Japan's most famous trance DJ of the era, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, but no longer exists.

The watch itself has the same shape as the other ME-110 Meta watches, a this one is the ME-110M. The difference comes in the decoration which is specific to this model. The square LCD panel is surrounded by red, white, and blue (probably magenta, cyan, and white) concentric squares, and the LCD backlight also displays a pattern of concentric squares, but with a circle in the middle. The start link on the strap is also engraved with a stylized smoke cloud, and the back has the Matsuri Productions logo. The strap matches the body, and has a part number of S-717L. This particular model/colour is the ME-110MD-4, and these watches were originally on sale for ¥15,000.

It uses a 1828 module which powers a 3 line LCD display with a combination of digits (top two lines), and dot matrix array. For the modes, it has alarm, data bank (30 slot), dual time, world time, and stopwatch.