How to Buy a Diamond: Insider Secrets for Getting Your Money's Worth

"Finally, one of the top diamond experts breaks the silence and demystifies the world of diamonds for regular folks like you and me."
- Gregory J. P. Godek, author of 1001 Ways To Be Romantic

Get Your Money's Worth on a Great Diamond

Buying a diamond can be one of the most important and intimidating purchases you ever make. Whether you're getting engaged or married, or are buying for an anniversary, investment, or just because, How to Buy a Diamond will take the pressure and uncertainty out of your purchase, and will show you how to get the best diamond for your money.

Newly revised and completely updated, How to Buy a Diamond is the only book on the market to include wholesalers' secret pricing charts that you, the public, never get to see! The charts are broken down by carat, clarity, and color - including the various types of color within each color grade.

Important sections include:

• Matching your funds with the perfect diamond
• The four Cs explained: clarity, color, cut, and carat size
• Ring styles and settings
• Insuring and caring for your diamond
• Picking the right jeweler
• Jewelers' tricks of the trade
• Wholesalers' secret pricing charts!

Get your money's worth on a great diamond.

Library Journal

Buying guides for gems and jewelry appear on the market with some regularity, and these two are similar in scope and content to their predecessors. Cuellar, founder and president of Diamond Cutters International, covers the standard topics of the four Cs (carat, clarity, color, cut), as well as the fifth C, cost. Various chapters focus on everything from ring settings to insurance, investment, and selling diamonds; other tidbits include carat size charts and even a list of 101 ways to be romantic. This serious yet lighthearted guide is geared to anyone looking for inside information on purchasing a diamond. Matlins's (Jewelry and Gems, LJ 5/1/94) work is equally informative yet more serious in nature. Each of the seven parts focuses on a variety of topics from the historical significance of pearls to pearl types and quality, from selection to caring for and wearing pearls. The two most important sections deal with insider tips and advice from the experts and what to ask when purchasing pearls. Other features include price guides, special charts, and a special color photograph section. Both of these books are suitable for public libraries.Stephen Allan Patrick, East Tennessee State Univ. Lib., Johnson City

Fred Cuellar, the founder and president of Diamond Cutters International, is one of the world's top diamond experts. His clients include the Saudi Royal Family and hundreds of professional athletes. Mr. Cuellar is certified in diamonds by the Gemological Institute of America and is ranked as one of the top diamond experts in America by National Jeweler. Fred Cuellar lives in Houston, Texas.