Project
The Wilks Compass 
Range Rover is setting off on an adventure from your living room — one that is multisensory, prestigious, refined and unique. Range Rover is the natural house to bring the compass up to date: a timeless object with a technology that never fails. The Wilks Compass carries that spirit, that aesthetic and that adventure, taking certain elements of the past to shape the future.
An exceptional object
The Wilks Compass is not only a compass in the first sense of the word. It is a finely finished object in quality materials — aluminium, a magnetic needle and glass. Its size, taken from the dimensions of the centre console, is larger than a classic compass, echoing what Range Rover stands for: comfort and space, while staying nomadic. Its underside is concave, so the object turns fluidly and holds a spectacular balance, in the image of the brand's products.
Hayling Island, the cradle of the Range Rover adventure
Range Rover is a timeless brand, true to its origins and its rich heritage. In tribute to that past, the Wilks Compass subtly evokes, in a play of sheen, the map of Hayling Island — the small island on the south coast of England that Maurice and Spencer Wilks, the pioneering engineers who founded Land Rover, came from.
An awarded project
The Wilks Compass won the AD Magazine × Range Rover competition in the Timeless Impact category of the 2026 edition, and appeared in the March–April 2026 issue.
Read the article in AD Magazine
