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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.

There are many examples of "It was an idea the time for which had come" one can find online.
 

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