@acreditdummy123 wrote:are people still able to request a replacement cards that fully metal?
The most recent information I have, @acreditdummy123, is that the Ritz Carlton card is still available as a metal card. However, the card design was changed substantially last year. (See this posting from August 2021.)
At one point, the Ritz Carlton Visa Infinite was one of the heaviest cards, weighing in at 27 grams 
which was the same as the JP Morgan Reserve (by invitation only.) By comparison, the next heaviest cards are the Barclays "Luxury Card" Mastercards at 22 grams each. The old Citi Prestige and the current Citi AAdvantage Executive card are 18 grams. AMEX Platinum and Centurion cards are 17 grams, as are the X1 card, Capital One Savor, the Synchrony Verizon Visa, and the HSBC WEMC among others.
The "new" Ritz-Carlton card is now a metal core sandwiched with plastic layers on the outside, similar to the Chase Sapphire Reserve and Sapphire Preferred, Chase Amazon Prime, Chase IHG Rewards Club Premier, and the Chase United Club Visa Infinite. The weights of all of these cards is in the 12-13 gram range.
As far as I know, there's no way to request the older heavier version.
@BronzeTrader wrote:We still have the original solid metal Ritz Carlton card that expires next year. That is about the only heavy metal card ever made as far as I know of.
I still remember the reaction when the waiter took our Ritz Carlton to its mobile card terminal in Canada. He was right at our table and he was very impressesed.
It is sad that Chase discontinued it and replaced with the fake one.
The old card was the same weight (27 grams) as the JP Morgan Reserve card. I believe the JPM Reserve is now the heaviest card available. Ritz Carlton is sandwich metal-plastic like many of the newer metal cards including Chase Sapphire Reserve that weigh about 12 grams.
@Aim_High wrote:
@BronzeTrader wrote:We still have the original solid metal Ritz Carlton card that expires next year. That is about the only heavy metal card ever made as far as I know of.
I still remember the reaction when the waiter took our Ritz Carlton to its mobile card terminal in Canada. He was right at our table and he was very impressesed.
It is sad that Chase discontinued it and replaced with the fake one.
The old card was the same weight (27 grams) as the JP Morgan Reserve card. I believe the JPM Reserve is now the heaviest card available. Ritz Carlton is sandwich metal-plastic like many of the newer metal cards including Chase Sapphire Reserve that weigh about 12 grams.
Now look at the real time weighting of Ritz card and the JPM card. 28 oz vs 26 oz. I hope the scales are not much different.
Different cards.
I'm guilty of liking even the extra heft of my CSR, but absolutely right on it's peeling: pre-pandemic where I was swiping that card all over the place I replaced it twice.
Current one has done OK, but I'm still ordering ahead and paying with Apple Pay for everything I can... actually I get *irritated* now when I have to pull out a card and enter it explicitly into an app.
I guess this all goes to say I'm seeing less and less reason to have a truly fancy / non-plastic card unless you're still doing lots of travel where swiping sometimes is unavoidable. Swiping for the sake of swiping just seems suboptimal.
