Diamond Ring Buying Guide: 8th Edition : How to Identify, Evaluate & Select the Best Diamonds & Diamond Jewelry

This updated and revised 8th Edition provides concise yet detailed information on diamond quality evaluation, lab-grown diamonds, fakes, gem treatments, cutting styles, gold, platinum, palladium, silver, alternative metals, settings, ring selection, diamond grading reports, gem care and buying tips.Its a visual guide that helps you select the best diamonds and mounting for your budget and needs.Written in clear, everyday English, with lots of colour photos, the book shows you step-by-step how to evaluate diamonds and settings.It has helped thousands of diamond buyers make smart choices and is a useful reference for jewelry salespeople when answering customers questions about diamonds, precious metals and settings.A Gems & Gemology review described the previous edition of the Diamond Ring Buying Guide as An entire course on judging diamonds in 155 pages of well-organised information ... the book serves as a checklist for the purchase, mounting and care of a diamond.The photos are excellent. Brides magazine wrote: "Want to feel truly confident in the jewelry store?Read the Diamond Ring Buying Guide by an industry insider, which will teach you how to judge a quality diamond.What We Love: The seriously savvy shopping tips and the massive colour photos that reveal what diamonds look like under a loupe".