In the heart of this work lies the legend of the Wanderer known in the Christian tradition as the figure who rejected Christ on the way to Golgotha. Upon hearing Christ’s words, “Go… until I return,” he was doomed to wander until the Second Coming. Konstantin Chaykin conveys this image through the metaphor of a watch mechanism: gears and wheels become symbols of an endless journey, where every rotation is a step toward the fulfillment of the promise. The figure, dissolved into an interlacing of parts, depicts a human being merged with the flow of time, powerless over its rhythm. The cold gleam of metal emphasizes the permanency of the sentence, and the closed structure of the mechanism evokes the necessity of the encounter with Christ. The painting turns the legend into a reminder of Scripture’s words: “The time is close…”