Real estate professional Cameel Halim oversees CH Ventures, LLC, as the Wilmette, Illinois-based company’s owner and president. Outside of his professional activities, Cameel Halim maintains an avid interest in classic timepieces and horology.
A focus of study for thousands of years, horology, or the science of timekeeping, originated with the Sumerians, who developed a 360-day calendar in the 21st century BC. The Babylonians later expanded on the Sumerians’ work by dividing the day into 24 hours, hours into 60 minutes, and minutes into 60 seconds. Over the years, a number of devices were created to track these measurements, but the first mechanical clocks did not appear until approximately the 13th century AD, when large tower clocks began popping up throughout Europe. The first watch was created two centuries later and led to a number of innovative developments in timekeeping. Modern inventions from the early to mid-20th century greatly improved the accuracy of clocks and watches and incorporated quartz, electricity, and speaking functions. Today, atomic clocks are available with the capability of measuring time in billionths of a second.
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