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It was an idea the time of which had come.

It sounds wrong because the preposition "of" before the relative pronoun "which" is wrong. Better:

It was an idea the time for which had come.

Clause 1: "It was an idea";
Clause 2: "The time for the idea had come."

The relative pronoun "which" takes the noun "idea" as its antecedent and substitutes for it in Clause 2.

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