PIERRE CARDIN ESPACE PC112 JAEGER LECOULTRE

A radiant vestige from the golden era of mod futurism, the Pierre Cardin Espace PC112 is a wearable artifact of a visionary decade. Released between 1971 and 1973, this avant-garde timepiece was born from an electrifying collaboration between Jaeger-LeCoultre, the storied Swiss-French horologer, and Pierre Cardin, the Parisian couturier who dressed The Beatles, dreamt up NASA spacesuits, and turned the Space Age into a fashion movement. The PC112 is among the rarest and most iconic expressions of the Espace collection, a capsule of timepieces designed to reimagine time as a sculptural experience. The present example features the series’ most coveted composition: a stack of three concentric Lucite disks in brilliant translucent electric blue, stepping upward like a staircase to the stars. These circular layers, gleaming with shifting reflections, create an illusion of movement even when the watch is still, a kinetic homage to orbits, propulsion, and planetary form.  Encased in stainless