With less than a week remaining to the new year, rapper Pitbull helped unveil Times Square's iconic New Year's Eve ball on Friday. The Waterford Crystal ball is a geodesic sphere covered with ...

Ahead of the year 2000, the Times Square ball was completely transformed and redesigned using crystal. To celebrate the turn of the millennium, the ball was redesigned by Waterford Crystal.

Waterford artisan Tom Brennan joins Lunch Break and discusses the 2016 Times Square New Year's Eve ball, featuring 2,688 Waterford crystal panels. Photo: Getty ...

Times Square's biggest tourist draw is the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. Revelers crowd the area to see New York's famous Waterford crystal ball descend 77 feet from a pole on the One Times ...

The Times Square ball drop has been a fixture of New ... and its now-signature crystal triangles (courtesy of Waterford Crystal) at the turn of the millennium. The ball was lowered by hand until ...

It would drop over Times Square for the first ... contains 2,688 Waterford crystals, and 32,256 LED lights. It's the largest crystal ball in the world. It can produce 16 million colors and ...

Ahead of the year 2000, the Times Square ball was completely transformed and redesigned using crystal. To celebrate the turn of the millennium, the ball was redesigned by Waterford Crystal. Each year, ...