Very nice indeed ! ( Thank you wguibas ! )
The marking definitely looks like an " E6 ", not " 93 " as I thought originally (with or without a middle character or digit). Again, thank you wguibas, your picture says more than a thousand words
The only SMD components I found with " E6 " marking are two low dropout voltage regulators (R1111N161A with output of 1.6v and RT9167-21CB with output of 2.1v), one voltage detector (RN5VD46AA) and an inverter (TC7SU04F or TC7SU04FU). The only SMD component which would fit on the PCB based on the wguibas' finding is the inverter. The inverter has the input pulled up to Vcc with that 1meg resistor and it's driving the shutdown pin of the LT1307 switcher.
My guess is that inverter is part of a protection circuit which kills the output voltage generated by the LT1307 if something doesn't work properly (the LT1307 has the shutdown pin active low and the input pin of the inverter is pulled up to Vcc). The pullup resistor value (1meg) seems a bit high to me but I guess that depends on the current handling capabilities of the thing which is driving the inverter.
I just bought a few inverters off fleebay from China, I don't mind waiting three weeks for them to arrive, after all the meter is waiting in my drawer for the last 7+ months for its turn on the operating table
Once again thank you for the quick help, I will update the thread when the inverters arrive, in the meantime the meter will return to the drawer.