‘Gift of Love’ Waterford Crystals Placed on Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball

Workers install some of the 192 sparkling new Waterford Crystal Triangles on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball atop the roof of One Times Square in New York on Dec. 27, 2022.Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

NEW YORK—Nearly 200 new Waterford crystals were installed on the New Year’s Eve ball in Times Square in New York on Tuesday in preparation for Saturday’s celebration to welcome in 2023.

Since 1999, replacements for the 2,688 crystal panels that make up the ball have been designed and made by hand by Irish craftsmen at Waterford. Each year, a new theme is chosen.