Why Mom Deserves a Diamond: Sparkling Treasures - Hardcover

Diamond Mike Watson

9781891665394: Why Mom Deserves a Diamond: Sparkling Treasures

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ISBN 10: 1891665391 ISBN 13: 9781891665394

Publisher: Moon Over Mountains, 2007

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Since 1993, Gallery of Diamonds has sponsored the WHY MOM DESERVES A DIAMOND contest. This contest has positively touched millions of people, making it the greatest tribute to mom in our nation.

2007 Edition- Sparkling Treasures. Cover created by Master Graphic Designer- Claudio Canestro.

Immortalize your child's words in this wonderful hardcover keepsake.

Special collectors edition includes the 4,000 winners of the 15th annual contest and photos and essays of every DiamondWinner since 1993.

Fun trivia and contest history. Order extra for great gifts.

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About the Author

Michael Watson was adopted into a family of loving parents who lived in the small town of New Albany, Indiana. He never forgot his mother's words of wisdom-- believe in yourself and all things are possible.

Although curious about his birth origins, Watson learned that it is the person that gives love, nurture, and caring instruction that is one's true mother.

Watson began his profession at the age of 17 at a small jewelry store. His duties were simply to sweep the wooden floors and deliver repairs to the goldsmith. He would be handed a small brown paper bag, told never to open it, and deliver it across the town. He never knew the precious jewels it contained!

After Watson graduated with a business degree, he was recruited to a diamond importer in Kentucky. He soon attained a love affair with rare and beautiful diamonds, and was soon promoted to manage a company division in Kansas.

Absorbed in the magical world of diamonds, Watson was ready for adventure. In 1989, he journeyed to California. After becoming a gemologist, he was ready to open a diamond business.

Believe in yourself and all things are possible, the words of his mother inspired him.

Determined to build a jewelry company that would offer beautiful designs, Watson sold much of his belongings to raise capital. With meager funds, the first Gallery of Diamonds was born in 1991 with a humble inventory of a small parcel of diamonds, and a few mountings and chains.

Watson quickly learned the secret of how to offer fine jewelry at lower prices than competitors. 1. Purchase the best unmounted diamonds. 2. Set the diamonds by master setters, and 3. Eliminate the cost of the middleman.

Watson also wanted to give kids a chance to express their love and appreciation for their own mothers. He called a few schools and invited kids to write an essay entitled, WHY MOM DESERVES A DIAMOND. The winner would receive a quarter-carat diamond to give to their mother. No one knew it at the time, as Margaret Ketchersid presented the winning diamond to her mother on that beautiful Mother's Day morning of 1993, but the course of history would forever be changed in the way thousands of kids could honor their moms.

Watson's advice for kids? Believe in yourself and all things are possible.

Today, Gallery of Diamonds specializes in diamonds, platinum, fine gold jewelry, and is a leading manufacturer of mother's jewelry. The gallery has master jewelers, appraisers, and designers.

From its inception, the company's quest has been to offer the best diamond jewelry values, and to make sure every child gets the chance to tell their moms how much they love them in the legendary, WHY MOM DESERVES A DIAMOND contest.

Every year, an average of twenty thousand letters are mailed to Gallery of Diamonds.

Michael Watson is the presdent of Galllery of Diamonds jewelers in Newport Beach, California. He graduated with a business degree from Indiana University, and was a diamond merchant for an Indianapolis diamond company for ten years.

Watson is a member of the American Adoption Congress and is a Gemoilogical of America trained gemologist. He is the co-president of the Gemological Institute of America Orange County Alumni and the author of Adopted Like Me- Chosen to Search for Truth, Identity, and a Birthmother.